Early Learning Standards: It’s More than Content

As early childhood education continues to rise to the top of federal, state, and local policymakers’ agendas as a "tool" to improve children’s academic performance in the later grades, many researchers and experts within the field are raising cautionary flags to ensure that policymakers understand the uniqueness of individuals that exists within the early childhood years. These stakeholders want to ensure that policymakers do not simply push down K-12 education reforms for the early years. A new Early Childhood Research & Practice article investigates repackaging of the K-12 standards within early childhood education through a case study of the formulation and implementation of Wisconsin’s Model Early Learning Standards.

Read the article at http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v9n1/brown.html

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