Reviewed by Mary McLaughlin, M.S. SpEd New presidential administrations almost always result in new policies for federal programs. Federal education policy can have a significant effect on every tier of the American education system, from college all the way down through …
Reviewed by Mary McLaughlin, M.S. SpEd Chris Arenth, a preschool teacher for the deaf at Lake Sybelia Elementary School in Maitland, Florida, has the unique job of teaching sign language and basic communication to preschool-age children. But the difficulty of her …
Reviewed by Mary McLaughlin, M.S. SpEd Data from the US DOE indicates that nearly half of the preschoolers who get suspended are black. However, only 19% of all preschool students are black. Is this because black children are more likely to …
Reviewed by Mary McLaughlin, M.S. SpEd During the month of October, preschoolers in Warren, Ohio traveled into space and across the world all within the comfort of the Willard PK-9 School. Their experience included a roaming planetarium which visited the school …
Reviewed by Mary McLaughlin, M.S. SpEd A Madison, Wisconsin preschool teacher, who has given the gift of learning for the past 11 years, is now giving the gift of life to one of her students. Beth Battista, a teacher at the …
Reviewed by Mary McLaughlin, M.S. SpEd Sue Beaty has been a presence at Fulton Preschool Association in Fulton, Missouri since 1991. After more than two decades, the dedicated preschool teacher decided it was time to retire. Beaty was a graduate of …
Reviewed by Mary McLaughlin, M.S. SpEd It has been more than a decade since Gretchen Haase retired as a preschool teacher from Portales Preschool in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but that doesn’t diminish the loss felt from her recent passing. Haase’s six-foot …
Rose Mary Jones thought her retirement as a preschool teacher would be uneventful. She didn’t suspect a thing when her husband called her in from working in the garden after receiving a phone call from their daughter. He told her …
Reviewed by Mary McLaughlin, M.S. SpEd Erika Christakis stresses the importance of play during preschool education in her new book The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups. Christakis shared her insights with YaleNews in an interview before …
Reviewed by Mary McLaughlin, M.S. SpEd Over half of the students in California’s two largest public school systems speak a language other than English at home. These two systems, which serve around a quarter of the state’s children, do not require …