This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Recently, most education reform has focused on literacy. Although this is an important part of development, The Brookings Institution discusses the lack of attention on math, especially…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Chalkbeat reports on the trend of outdoor learning programs for preschoolers in the US (based on a Scandinavian model). While the benefits are numerous, there is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A new study on self-control among children recreated the famous Stanford ‘marshmallow test’ with a diverse group of children and found that social factors were much…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Conferencing one-on-one with kindergarten students to try and understand their barriers in reading gives them the space to articulate their problems to the teacher and offers a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Credentialing preschool teachers is very costly, and hard for some people to justify. When students do receive the degrees, they will be paid lower wages compared…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Children & Nature Network interviews Meghan Fitzgerald, the co-founder of a program called Tinkergarten, which gets kids ages 18 months to 8 years old into the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A kindergarten teacher shares her unique perspective in actively teaching her students how to process their emotions and feel empathy towards their classmates. • Why is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Quebec offers parents support in the form of free childcare, but since government-run institutions have long waiting lists, they also offer subsidies to put children into private daycares.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The 74 examines the debate over whether pre-K teachers should be required to have a bachelor’s degree and finds that at least one collaborative of early…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Data-driven education is all the rage now — but libraries have been ahead of the curve for a long time, especially in the field of early childhood literacy. “Libraries are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation (“AppleTree”) developed nine approaches to learning standards for preschoolers to think more explicitly about things like self-monitor behavior, interaction with peers, and others…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Educare Flint is an early childhood care program designed to enroll young students living in Flint, MI and offer them additional community support services. • This was part of…