News Archive
Early Years Outdoors: Vision and Values for outdoor play
Tuesday 01. of June 2004By: Alliance for Childhood - Learning through Landscapes
Vision and Values
The Vision for all young children
• All children have the right to experience and enjoy the essential and special nature of being outdoors.
• Young children thrive and their minds and bodies develop best when...
Failing Our Children
Saturday 01. of May 2004By: The National Center for Fair and Open Testing
“No Child Left Behind” (NCLB), the title of the federal Elemen-
tary and Secondary Education Act, describes a worthy goal for our
nation. Tragically, NCLB is aggravating, not solving, the real problems
that cause many...
Ready to learn
Saturday 01. of November 2003By: American School Board Journal
The 4-year-olds at the Margaret H. Cone Head Start Center live in one of the most depressed and crime-plagued neighborhoods in Dallas. Most come from single-parent families, and many of their mothers and fathers did not graduate...
Pupils who wait to start school are keener to learn
Wednesday 23. of July 2003By: Daily Mail - Sarah Harris
Children who start school at a later age are less likely to misbehave during
lessons, claims a report. They tend to co-operate with teachers and have a higher boredom threshold, says education watchdog Ofsted.
Universities will coach country’s brightest pupils from age of 4
Saturday 17. of March 2007By: The Times
The most gifted 10 per cent of primary school children are to be offered extra classes under plans to track the brightest 400,000 through school and into university.
Is your baby playing with its toes yet? If not the government wants to know why
Wednesday 14. of March 2007By: The Guardian
Babies will be assessed on their gurgling, babbling and toe-playing abilities when they are a few months old under a legally enforced national curriculum for children from birth to five published by the government yesterday.
How nurseries 'still breed aggression'
Tuesday 27. of March 2007By: Daily Telegraph
Children who spend a lot of time in nursery are more likely to be aggressive and disobedient throughout primary school - no matter how excellent the nursery, according to study published today.