Recommended: Universal pre-k initiatives
K-9 units are composed of law enforcement officers who are paired up with highly-trained canines. Canines are useful for their intelligence and strong sense of smell which helps out with pursuing fugitives, searching for missing people, and during narcotics or weapons detection. A canine would have a special bond with their handler to the point where they would even save their handler from danger if needed. The canine handler would normally maintain 24 hour control over their canine. K-9 units are involved in the following duties: “Detect the presence of illegal substances, dangerous chemicals or explosives, Pursue and apprehend fugitives, Track and rescue missing or kidnapped individuals, Locate bodies that have been buried or submerged underwater,
Education is at the forefront of most new parent’s minds, which is why there is so much pressure on choosing a good preschool. Parents want to make sure that they give their children the best possible start to education, in order to create a solid foundation for success late in life. However, in society today, expectations placed on preschoolers are becoming more demanding, a trend that could have many negative consequences on the development of children. This idea is discussed in the article The New Preschool is Crushing Kids written by Erika Christakis. Christakis interconnects the audience, speaker, and subject as well as uses appeals to logic, emotion, and credibility to craft a strong and effective argument about how preschool has started to place too many expectations on preschoolers.
In the Article “Universal Pre-K: “This Whole Thing is a Scam””, John
Attending preschool have a long-term academic benefit to ensure early learners are ready for kindergarten and beyond. The credibility of students learning academics at an early age are more sociable with their peers, manage stress, and solve problems effectively. Revised: In conclusion preschool plays an essential role in early childhood development, both social, and academically.
The Search In November of 2004, I was hired, as the Special Education Teacher/Disabilities, by the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe Head Start Program, fresh out of college with some experience substituting in the local school districts. The Special Education Department for Head Start was nonexistence and shared the Occupational Therapist, Physical Therapist, Speech and Language Pathologist with their Daycare Program or services were contracted out to other companies. However, the services were often limited to specific hours and days of the week. Head Start found that the needs of the students were not being met and evaluations were not completed in a timely manner and personnel change frequently.
Lower income and uneducated parents have a higher risk to have a child who performs poorly on test. However, the federal government had attempted to aid these underfunded and undereducated families. Head Start, a federal preschool program, has the purpose to raise test scores in the long term; however, “it has repeatedly been proven ineffectual.” By observing the in efficacy present in a Head Start class, it is apparent why the program is failing.
Head Start is a federal funded program for children between ages three to five who are underprivileged and come from low income families. A child’s mind when they first go to school is rapidly developing and at school teachers are responsible for guiding their students and helping them develop throughout the school year. If a child gets a bad teacher they can’t develop like they are suppose to. For many low income families public schools are their only option and before Head Start public schools didn’t really have a good preschool option. If a child attended preschool it regularly costed money and poor, low income families couldn’t afford to send their children to a private preschool.
The existence of the education achievement gap between white, Hispanic, and African-American, students has been a lingering problem across the United States. To close this gap it requires action that focuses on early childhood education programs that help in the preparation of students that will enter the system on grade level and ready to learn. One program developed for preparing children living in poverty for school is Head Start. Head start is a federal corresponding endowment program that offers the underprivileged children with admission to pre-kindergarten education. Head start program started as of fight on poverty and currently serving approximately 900,000 children yearly at the cost of $6.9 million yearly, and the number has increased
Fuller and Strath (2001) conducted a quantitative research study that examined local populations of early education organizations based on the 1990 household census data to report features of the early childhood workforce nationwide. Multiple economic and regulatory forces shaped the population of early education organizations that operated within states and local communities. The median center-based teacher was 34 years of age, reported having completed some college, and was married. The median family childcare home provider had a high school diploma. Fifteen percent of all preschool teachers in urban areas were African American and 8% were Latina.
We as a society must advocate the importance of voting for progress at an early childhood. Also we must demographically target the lowest voting communities and outreach to
and Columbia University found that three-year-old Early Head Start children performed “significantly better on a range of measures of cognitive, language, and social-emotional development.” The study also goes on to say that “Early Head Start programs produced statistically significant, positive impacts on standardized measures of children’s cognitive and language development.” Three-year-old children in the program scored 91.4 on the Bayley Mental Development index and 83.3 on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. It has also been shown that children in low-income homes who participate in Head Start programs are more ready for school than peers from the same socioeconomic background who did not participate in Head Start. Additionally, The Head Start Impact Study found that children who participated in Head Start programs scored better than a control group of children “in all measured domains of cognitive and social-emotional development at the end of their Head Start experience.”
The Open University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education PTD38 Higher Diploma in Early Childhood Education (2014-2015) ASSIGNMENT 1 MY PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION Student Number: 11396646 Student: CHENG KA YIU, YOYO Class: U09A Course Code: EDU4017EP Course Title: Introduction to Early Childhood Education Instructor: Ms. Hailey Chan Programme Leader: Dr. Eunice Yim Submission Date: 14 November 2014
Introduction “The sooner the better” is the ideal tag line for early childhood education. The experiences of children in their early years
As the expectations for children entering kindergarten rise, so should a child’s preparation for the concepts that they will be expected to know. More and more parents are making the decision to enroll their children into some type of preschool to help prepare them for kindergarten, and more and more of these students are succeeding in their early school years and even their later life. In fact, 61% of parents say that their children are enrolled in preschool, which has risen by 6% in just one year (Early Childhood Education Zone)! Kids that do not receive the opportunity to attend pre-kindergarten classes are not getting the chance to succeed at their full potential. Studies show that kids that do not attend pre-K are 60% more likely to
Education, 135(3), 328-336. Harvard University Center on the Developing Child (2009) Five Numbers to Remember about Early Childhood Development, Developing Child, Harvard University, as retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/five-numbers-to-remember-about-early-childhood-development/ Hirokazu, Y., Weiland, C., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2016). When Does Preschool Matter?. Future Of Children, 26(2), 21-35.
