Four foundational elements of young children’s development underlie their competence and appear to predict their success in school from PreK through 3rd grade: self regulation, representation, memory, and attachment. Infusing knowledge about child development into the early education system would transform early schooling and help all children achieve and succeed.
This brief provides an overview of issues related to financing early childhood programs in a school setting; provides estimates of costs and sources of revenue to support portions of these programs for children below the typical age of entry into school; and discusses special issues related to the capital costs for renovations and new construction
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Teacher education programs must include opportunities for future teachers to study contexts as well as texts, to develop a repertoire of tools for observing, assessing, and studying children’s early learning, and to acquire the skills and dispositions to do this work with others through processes of collaborative inquiry. Graduates of such a program will enter
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