<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>The Core Knowledge Blog &#187; Preschool</title>
	<atom:link href="http://blog.coreknowledge.org/category/preschool/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org</link>
	<description>Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:44:35 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Wrapping Up the Week of the Young Child</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/26/wrapping-up-the-week-of-the-young-child/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/26/wrapping-up-the-week-of-the-young-child/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Wiggins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Preschool]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=2534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The week has ended and observation of the National Association for the Education of Young Children&#8217;s Week of the Young Child is drawing to a close.  I hope you found at least on nugget to take away from my &#8220;top 5 for improving early childhood education&#8221;
5.  Clear and specific early childhood standards
4.  Alignment of PreK [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/26/wrapping-up-the-week-of-the-young-child/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>What Makes a Good Preschool Good?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/21/what-makes-a-good-preschool-good/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/21/what-makes-a-good-preschool-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Wiggins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Preschool]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=2468</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were looking for the ideal preschool for your son or daughter, what would you look for?  You&#8217;d probably expect your child&#8217;s preschool to hire well-trained, qualified teachers, have small class sizes and maintain a low teacher-student ratio.  If so, your list might look a lot like the benchmarks of National Institute for Early Education Research [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/21/what-makes-a-good-preschool-good/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Improving Preschool Education: Clear and Specific Standards</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/20/improving-preschool-education-clear-and-specific-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/20/improving-preschool-education-clear-and-specific-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Wiggins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[No category]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preschool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low-income students]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=2461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Explicitly defining what very young children should know and be able to do is a very touchy issue. An Australian education group recently suggested that preschoolers should be made aware of different jobs and careers. Sounds reasonable but the idea from Principals Australia was roundly lampooned in the local media as &#8220;career counseling&#8221; for toddlers.  [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/20/improving-preschool-education-clear-and-specific-standards/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Troubled Boy</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/09/09/all-work-and-no-play-makes-jack-a-troubled-boy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/09/09/all-work-and-no-play-makes-jack-a-troubled-boy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preschool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsweek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peg Tyre]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=946</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s wrong with boys?  Last week we learned that parents of nearly one of every five U.S. boys have sought professional help about their sons&#8217; emotional or behavioral problems.  Newsweek&#8217;s Peg Tyre thinks it has a lot to do with changing child rearing and education practices over the last ten years&#8211;overscheduling, instead of structured play.  Learning [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/09/09/all-work-and-no-play-makes-jack-a-troubled-boy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Problem With Preschool</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/08/22/the-problem-with-preschool/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/08/22/the-problem-with-preschool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Preschool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAEP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reason Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Universal PreK]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=866</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mom, apple pie and universal PreK?  Not so fast argue Shikha Dalmia and Lisa Snell of the libertarian Reason Foundation in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal.  With the exception of &#8220;very intense interventions targeted toward severely disadvantaged kids, &#8220;there&#8217;s little statistical evidence that strapping a backpack on all 4-year-olds and sending them to preschool is good for them.&#8221; While U.S. preschool [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/08/22/the-problem-with-preschool/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Near-Universal Pre-K</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/05/12/near-universal-pre-k/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/05/12/near-universal-pre-k/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Preschool]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a 4-year-old in America, it&#8217;s a safe bet you&#8217;re in school, writes USA Today&#8217;s Greg Toppo, who describes &#8220;a quiet but steady rise in the number of children in preschool&#8221; over the past two decades.
The most recent federal statistics show that more than 1 million children were enrolled in public programs in 2005, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/05/12/near-universal-pre-k/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Above Average Babble</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/03/25/above-average-babble/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/03/25/above-average-babble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preschool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[achievement gap]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/03/25/above-average-babble/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Children under five in Great Britain could lose the freedom to play thanks to a &#8220;toddlers&#8217; curriculum&#8221; that imposes 69 learning goals on pre-school youngsters, teachers warn.  According to the London Daily Mail, the Early Years Foundation Stage, which applies to all 25,000 private and state nurseries in England sets out 69 early-learning goals [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/03/25/above-average-babble/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Press release: The Savvy Source</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2007/11/30/press-release-the-savvy-source/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2007/11/30/press-release-the-savvy-source/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CKF</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preschool]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=58</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Savvy Source, in partnership with Core Knowledge, launched a free, online Learning Guide on Nov. 28 to give parents a relatively simple process for identifying the best books,  toys and activities to meet their child&#8217;s developmental strengths and needs.  All parents of toddlers and preschoolers have to do is answer a simple [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2007/11/30/press-release-the-savvy-source/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
