Article By Erika Christakis: Article Analysis

On February 12th, 2012, in his State of the Union address, President Obama discussed the long-term benefits a universal preschool would have on today’s society. “In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children…studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, form more stable families of their own. We know this works. So let’s do what works and make sure none of our children start the race of life already behind.” (Obama) Unfortunately, an overwhelming number of children, from low-poverty areas, are unable to access high-quality early childhood programs for their preschool aged children. Consequently,

Just think about this one tiny effect. Imagine that you are about to start school at the age of five, and once you arrive you see that kids around you are more prepared, confident, and eager to learn. These young smiley five year old faces don’t make you happy. In fact, this makes you depressed, and saddened. Early education, also known as preschool is of vital importance. Preschool or an early educational establishment is a group of people offering early childhood education, before the age five. They offer enriching courses for children, and help prepare them for the transition into elementary school. Children who use the opportunity of an early education have a huge advantage. On the other hand, children who don’t enter preschools seem to lack in certain areas, and lag behind. Many children in our country do not attend preschool at the age of three or four, and directly enter kindergarten without the early learning opportunity. This issue of a less advantage situation could eventually lead to a bigger disadvantage when it comes to learning. Many parents aren’t willing to send their children to preschool in their early years as it is over expensive and unnecessary for a three year old to enter school. I, on the other hand, disagree with these people. If children learn from early on, there won’t be any need to worry about others who have advantages. I believe that early education should be mandatory, and since many people can’t afford preschools, public school districts should have their own preschool grade for all younger students.

The second area is, “Creating improved better connected education for preschool and elementary children.” This section addresses the fact that preschools are required to work with public schools to prepare students for the standards taught in kindergarten. This also helps students when they get to third grade and take state assessments. For teachers, the pressure is increasing for

The United States consumes more than 25% of the world’s petroleum products which is a large percentage, considering only 3% of the world’s oil reserves are produced by the United States. Given the demand for petroleum products such as gasoline, understanding why Crude oil prices have skyrocketed in recent years, is not hard. According to the article “Ending America’s Oil Addiction,” the surge in crude oil prices can be reduced in large part to the simple concepts of supply and demand. (Cooper, 2008)

For this week’s discussion board I used the article; Pardon the Interruption: Enhancing Communication Skills for Students with Intellectual Disability By: Bayes, Daniel A., Heath, Amy K., Williams, Carol, Ganz, Jennifer B., TEACHING Exceptional Children, 00400599, 20130101, Vol. 45, Issue 3.

Early childhood education has many benefits and there is the potential for many significant outcomes if universal preschools were put into place. Some feel that children who start kindergarten without previously attended preschool sometimes lack certain skills such as social and communication skills and an inability to follow routines. There were also studies done that found attending preschool could help to close the achievement gap in the grade school years. A child’s first few years of life are most important, and they absorb the most during those years. By providing universal preschool, all children would be benefiting, especially those who are in at-risk families or part of the lower class. As a society, we have a responsibility to help the children in our communities and provide them with the education they need in order to help them succeed in life.

In believing that writing have soothing effects to “the fabric of personality (p. 4)” Karen Cangialosi targets anybody with an emotional problem to settle down and create a “cohesive personal narrative (p. 2).” As a result, people will make sense of their lives through their writings and truly experience the “healing through the written word.” Having her target be people with instability, Cangialosi’s article serves the purpose to a remedy for them.

In the article written by Marty Nemko Ph. D., he had vividly explained what is behind the failure of many could-have-been-successful individuals, showing a distinct connection with their attitudes and behaviour. Living a life as a therapist, Nemko had heard various complaints from his patients, whether they were playing the blame game with their pasts or simply making up excuses not to work hard enough. Putting the dots together, he established a relationship between their attitudes and unsuccessfulness, naming it the Peter pan Syndrome, where they simply refuse to grow up, maintaining a childish mentality. However, similarly to how he ended the article, anybody can overcome this syndrome. After all, nobody is too old or too young to grow

The purpose of this article was to research why early childhood education workers want to make changes to a system that is very similar to the pre-k programs that are currently taking place. They wanted to see how effective other programs such as TEEM was for the students as well as the teachers. Readying children for kindergarten is the main goal of preschool educators and through Brown 's research he was able to find out how effective TEEM truly was. Through this research they discovered that it was working well inside a majority of the classrooms. The teachers were able to see noticeable improvements from the students as well as with themselves. From the administration 's point of view, the reform with TEEM was making noticeable differences, "In all, these elementary school stakeholders saw this model of pre-K reform working because it produced students who fit their conception of school readiness.” (Brown, Christopher, n.d.). Not only was it affecting the students, but the principle of one of the schools really saw a change as well. It was stated in the article, “The principal likes TEEM because she sees the results

In this article, the multiple authors go into depth on how the APOE E4 gene mutation may be attained and if nationality may contribute to this risk factor gene. The prevalence of this mutation is thought to occurred from contemporary environmental conditions. This claim is backed up with examples of these harmful contemporary environmental conditions. As the article grows, the nationally factor is explained using a series of charts and data. Within these charts are people listed with their country, age, and percentage of APOE e4 gene. Thus, allowing the data to be tested in order to back up

Early years in a child’s life ( when the brain is forming) represents a critically important window to develop a child’s full potential and shape academic, social, and cognitive skills. The Universal Prekindergarten Initiative urges each state to provide access to state funded preschool programs for four year olds. These programs would vary due to teacher qualifications, number of students, staff-child ratio, and operating schedule. Economic analysis ( Bowman) indicates that a better educational investment is in preschool education is in preschool education. To have a successful program states would need to support the prek. President Obama has called upon Congress to expand access to high quality preschool

Currently, nearly half of all kindergarten teachers report that their children have problems that hinder their success. Children unprepared for kindergarten tax the resources of the entire system. In the long term the unprepare chilern become a burden to all of society. However, classrooms where all children are prepared have higher learning productivity and classroom

Africa: The article "Idaho huntress Sabrina Corgatelli defiant despite social media backlash" was published on CNN.com by Laura Smith-Spark on August 4, 2015. Sabrina Corgatelli is a huntress who is now being criticized on social media for all the animals she has killed during her hunts in South Africa. Not only did she kill these animals, but also made comments such as "A feeling I will never forget," which made people furious, believing that Sabrina enjoyed harming these creatures. Trying to make up for what she had said, she quoted verses from the book of Genesis and also stated, "But giraffes are very dangerous animals. They could hurt you seriously, very quickly," trying to make what she did sound okay. Though what she did was legal, I

The reason children attend kindergarten today is so they can be taught a meaningful and balanced curriculum filled with skills and information. Teachers do this through age-appropriate activities that encourage the children to learn more (Marzollo, 1987). In order for children to develop the necessary skills for success in life, they need to attend kindergarten. In full day kindergarten programs more time is available to develop the necessary social and academic skills children need for success later on (“Full-day and half-day kindergarten in the United States”, 2004). Full day programs have become more and more popular in the past few decades. In the 1970s fewer than 15% of all five-year-olds in the US

It was a pleasure having Mikaela Aguirre in my class. She was a hard working, passionate, and independent student. She made consistent efforts to understand the reading materials, wrote thoughtful responses to the required texts, and commented occasionally during the discussions. She was not the most vocal participant in class, and I wish she had spoken more because she usually brought unique perspectives to the forum. Her presentations tend to be a bit too long and they could have been better structured. However, I do not doubt that Mikaela was a talented, diligent, and serious learner. She always came to the conference with a significant research progress for her conference project. She had an excellent research skills.