Latest Developments in the News Regarding Early Childhood Education
3/11/10 Running a Day Care Center : Grants for Day Care Centers www.hhs.gov/grants/
3/11/10 The importance of play in Early Childhood Education GO HERE
3/11/10 Preschool’s Role in Fighting Childhood Obesity GO HERE
3/11/10 Gibbons: Use lottery commission to pay for pre-K GO HERE
2/22/10 Add your Daycare to Google, It is Free!!
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2/22/10
Lawmakers to launch bipartisan effort to rewrite No Child Left Behind
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2/16/10 Family Child Care Tax Informationstepbystepcc.com/tax.html
2/16/10 Should You Surprise Visit Your Children in Childcare
2/13/10 Has Spanking Received a Bad Rap?
Rae Pica and Sara Behnke, Amy McCready, Murray Straus & Marjorie Gunnoe
Recent research compared spanked children with non-spanked and in some important developmental areas, spanked children were better off. So now what?
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2/12/10 Bringing Science to Pre-K: Rutgers Researchers Write the Book READ MORE.........
2/11/10 Don't miss the February/March issue of Teaching Young Children:
This issue includes articles on puppets, dramatic play, playdough, and using children's books to explore math.
Not yet a TYC subscriber? Become one today to receive these and more fabulous ideas to use in your preschool classroom.
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2/11/10 FAVORITE SITE OF THE MOMENT!! www.prekinders.com
I Love this site!!
2/11/10 Feb 18, 2010 - Feb 18, 2010
2010 National Smart Start Conference Online
Smart Start/The North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc.
More Info
This conference will feature live, interactive sessions available over the Web. The conference will feature a keynote
presentation from Joan Lombardi, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services. The theme of this year's conference is "From Vision to Reality: Essential Elements of State Early
Childhood Systems." The conference is intended for those interested in early childhood education,
including but not limited to child care providers, health professionals, local and state government officials, and teachers.
2/11/10 Win a Classroom Makeover worth $10,000 Go Here
2/11/10 Study: kids watching hours of TV at home daycare
Parents who thought their preschoolers were spending time in home-based day cares, taking naps, eating healthy snacks
and learning to play nicely with others may be surprised to discover they are sitting as many as two hours a day in
front of a TV, according to a study.
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2/9/2010 GIVE ME TWENTY READING CHALLENGE
MARCH 1-APRIL 25, 2010
Beginning March 1st and going through April 25th, read to your class/children at least 20 minutes per day at least five days per week. You can use whatever reading schedule works best for you.
Classrooms/children who have read at least 800 minutes during this time period are eligible for a chance to win a R.E.D. Zone Reward. Registered participants will receive the official Give Me Twenty Reading Challenge Sweepstakes Entry Form via email after April 26, 2010, for a chance to win a prize package including two books, Corduroy and A Pocket for Corduroy, a plush Corduroy bear, and a one-year subscription to One More Story.
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2/9/2010 Rx for President Obama’s Early Learning Budget:
Tie it Firmly to Education Reform
Although I have long championed a big boost in the federal commitment for early care and education, I have a major concern with the FY 2011 early care and education budget increases President Obama proposed this week. The funding increases the president proposes for FY2011 are, if nothing else, big. They include:
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2/8/2010 WHAT ARE DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE PRACTICES (DAP)?
As NAEYC defines it, developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) is a framework of principles and guidelines for best practice in the care and education of young children, birth through age 8. It is grounded both in the research on how young children develop and learn and in what is known about education effectiveness.
The principles and guidelines outline practice that promotes young children's optimal learning and development.
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2/8/2010 A Consensus About Day Care: Quality Counts
ONE of the first decisions working parents must make is whether to place their child in a day care center. Preschool programs and day care centers have been studied extensively by researchers, and the reports are usually a mixed bag of risks and benefits.
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2/8/2010 Week of the Young Child 2010
Week of the Young Child will be held April 11-17, 2010. The theme is Early Years are Learning Years.™ For more information,
including a planning handbook with resources for programs and Affiliates, visit www.naeyc.org/woyc
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