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Large day care center toddlers get more infections, and fewer at elementary school Medical News Today Share    
A child who goes to a day care center will have more infections before 2 1/2 years of age and fewer during their elementary/primary school period, Canadian researchers wrote in an article published in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Most typical illnesses include ear and respiratory infections. The authors wrote: "Preschool children in group child care experience more frequent infections than do children cared for primarily at home, and the risk seems greater when children attend larger group child care. These findings have created concerns that group child care may compromise the health of young children and their community. However, few studies have examined the impact of group child care on infections beyond the preschool years." More Childcare's role in promoting nutrition and physical activity Healthy CHILD Care Share
Childcare is an environment where children can establish healthy eating and physical activity habits. Many of the daily activities that childcare programs provide, such as meals and snacks, physical activity, and nutrition education, are the foundations of lifelong healthy habits. Childcare programs also have established partnerships with families and can be a powerful, positive force in encouraging healthy habits in children's homes. More
With tight budgets, states don't scrimp on early education The Washington Times Share
Even as state legislators slice budgets for 2011, many lawmakers have crossed party lines to boost or maintain state spending on early child education programs, according to a report. Still, 2011 promises to be another year for revenue-starved states to look for places — including early education — to reduce spending or demand the biggest bang for every buck. "We were pleased to see that despite the widespread fiscal distress leaders of both parties in a majority of states supported high-quality pre-kindergarten investments for fiscal year 2011," said Marci Young, director of Pre-K Now. More Building relationships is a key classroom strategy Eye on Early Education Share
Karen Mapp, author of "Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships," also directs the Education Management and Policy program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Mapp called parent and community engagement a critical ingredient of successful schools — and starting early matters. Citing research that shows children perform better academically when parents and schools work together, she pressed for a paradigm shift from seeing parents as part of the problem to viewing them as part of the solution. That, she said, means reframing family engagement so it becomes a shared partnership rather than individual responsibility, systemic and sustained rather than random and episodic, integrated rather than added on, and focused on learning outcomes rather than events. More
Training the early educators we need: Q. & A. with Elanna Yalow Early Years via Education Week Share
In November, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education released a report calling for more emphasis on clinical pre-service experience for the nation's K-12 teachers, such as is provided in urban teacher residency programs, like Boston's. What does training look like now for early educators, and how do administrators in the early ed world make human capital decisions? For an on-the-ground perspective, Early Years turned to Elena Yalow, executive vice president of Knowledge Universe, a for-profit education company that operates more than 2,000 early-learning programs (both preschool and day care) in 39 states. More Safe sleep for babies Healthy CHILD Care Share
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has released "Safe Sleep for Babies," a new crib safety video aimed at helping all new parents avoid suffocation, strangulation and entrapment risks in the sleep environment. CPSC is collaborating with the American Academy of Pediatrics, Keeping Babies Safe, New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, and journalist and mom Joan Lunden to educate new and expectant parents and caregivers on crib safety. The video demonstrates how to keep babies safe and sound in cribs, bassinets and play yards. More
At a critical crossroads: Why austerity now is a false cure Preschool Matters Share
Steve Barnett, co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research, wrote in recent weeks about the difficult circumstances in which middle and low-income families have found themselves over the past decade, as amply illustrated by the most recent census report, and pointed out the hardships the recession is placing on public budgets in general and early childhood education in particular. That this confluence of events poses a grave danger to the progress made in early childhood education should be apparent to one and all. Yet it apparently is not in this political season of achieving fiscal austerity at all costs. More The problem-solving parent: The caring season Early Childhood News Share
This is probably the most stressful time of the year, and our children do not escape the stress. In spite of our best intentions, our children may end up feeling over stimulated, upset, demanding, and disappointed. Whether you are rich or poor, whether you choose to believe in a particular religion or not, and whatever your racial or ethnic identity, your children will be bombarded by the most commercial and greedy aspects of the season. More |
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