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Approved Curricula for State-Funded Preschool Programs In 2011, thirty-nine of the fifty states (Figure 2.3) provided publicly funded preschool programs; in Oklahoma, Florida, and Vermont, for example, these enrolled as many as 75 percent of 4-year-olds. Place Your Order Here!

The Search for a “Perfect” Curriculum Wouldn’t it be great if we could figure out the perfect curriculum? Project Follow Through (FT) and the Head Start Planned Variation studies were research efforts that attempted to do exactly that (Stebbins, 1977). These two longitudinal studies emerged from the national Head Start program. By 1967, the Johnson

Perry Preschool Study Data The Perry Preschool Project has tracked the progress of 123 African American subjects since 1965. The age 40 data continue to provide evidence of positive effects. Source: High Scope Educational Research Foundation Place Your Order Here!

Longitudinal Studies on the Benefits of Preschool In addition to studying students for several months or a year in a day-care setting, laboratory school, or other classroom environment, researchers often seek to understand the long-term impact of early childhood education. Hence they institute longitudinal studies to track the same individuals over periods of several years

Laboratory Schools In the early twentieth century, G. Stanley Hall, an American psychologist, was a principal founder of what we now consider the field of child psychology (Barbour, 2003). To conduct research into how the minds of children work, he and his colleagues needed access to natural but controlled settings where subjects could be observed

Basis in Theory and Research The educators who develop curricula for young children are informed and influenced by ongoing research that continually refines our understanding of how children learn. Thousands of researchers from around the world, coming from a variety of perspectives, have contributed to our body of knowledge on early childhood. However, they often

Mission Statements from Four Programs These mission statements are from four different preschool programs. Can you see that they represent specific goals and use particular words or phrases to emphasize the different curricula that the facilitators use? College of Charleston N.E. Miles Early Childhood Development Center ECDC’s three part mission is to provide: A demonstration

Vision and Mission Typically, early childhood programs are guided by a particular vision statement that clearly articulates what the program wants to achieve and a mission statement that succinctly describes how it will do so. The vision and mission of individual programs can be quite different (see Figure 2.1). One program might emphasize literacy, for

How Is Early Childhood Curriculum Developed? Jupiterimages / Thinkstock Early childhood curricula can vary widely in philosophy and approach. Early childhood educators can benefit from having a framework within which to compare them. The curriculum a program or school chooses or develops is defined in many ways, both theoretical and practical. From a theoretical perspective, curriculum

Introduction:How does it compare with other curricula? Congratulations! Your interview went great! You have been offered a position in the preschool classroom of a public school in a farming community. The area has a growing immigrant population as well as many families who have lived there for generations. The school is small (one class per