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In the US state of Georgia, teachers licensed to teach children from birth through Kindergarten (B–K, ages 0–5) or pre-Kindergarten (pre-K) to Grade 5 (p-5, ages 4–10) can teach pre-K and K in the public school system. Concerns have been raised about the unequal job opportunities for B–K candidates in the public school system because of the conflic...
A focus on high-quality child care at institutions of higher education has been in review in recent years. The information in this article provides one campus's approach to the knowledge and beliefs of faculty, staff, and students in regards to high quality child care on a university campus. Research gathered from campus constituents is shared alon...
Many early learning settings are more culturally diverse than ever before. Due to widespread migration, early learning classrooms now include students from a rich variety of racial, ethnic, and cultural groups. One classroom may contain students from a dozen countries and even more cultural experiences. To produce conscientious and creative global...
This article examines the research regarding fluency and its impact on struggling readers. Fluency is a key component of reading instructions for all learners. It encompasses the students’ ability to read with automaticity, accuracy, and prosody for understanding. Research suggests that struggling readers have difficulty when fluency is weak, which...
The need to foster a global understanding of humanistic and ecological values and skills is increasingly becoming evident in early childhood education. This article closely examines some of the concepts of global education, namely “perspective consciousness, cross-cultural awareness, state-of-the-planet awareness, system connectedness, awareness an...
The importance of early literacy has been supported by research for many years. Children that are English language learners are at particular risk for literacy difficulties. Phonemic awareness, particularly segmentation and blending, is accepted as being an important factor in literacy ability. There are very few studies that explore phonemic aware...
