AppleTree Blog
Quality Matters
A federally funded study finds that obedience and academic problems among children who received low-quality care in their first 4½ years of life persist through their 15th birthdays, suggesting the potential for lifelong difficulties. Teenagers who had received higher-quality child care are less likely to report engaging in problem behaviors such as arguing, being mean to others and getting into fights.
TV and Toddlers
A recent study confirms that prolonged exposure to television during early childhood years contributes to developmental risk in academic, psychosocial, and health behaviors at age 10.
Field Trips: Classroom Connections to the Real World
AppleTree teachers are constantly looking for ways to create real-world contexts for engaging their students’ interests.
Closing the School Readiness Gap
When they enter kindergarten, children from lower- and middle-income families are, on average, far behind their wealthier peers in reading, mathematics, and general knowledge. Research has found that high-quality preschool such as AppleTree can close this gap in school readiness.
Teacher Appreciation Week!
The week of May 3 - May 7 marks National “Teacher Appreciation Week.”
How is the Recession Effecting Young Children?
The 2009 Annual State of Preschool report, conducted by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) will be released at AppleTree’s Columbia Heights campus on May 4th.
Experts Discuss the Early Learning Workforce
Experts agree that quality early learning programs depend on a professional, knowledgeable, well-trained workforce; the type of workforce that AppleTree actively recruits and trains.
The Foundations of Early Learning
Accrued research suggests early education interventions have strong effects on children's cognitive outcomes, social skills and school progression.
AppleTree Institute to Release Report on Impressive Pre-Kindergarten Gains
Study finds that Early Reading First program “DC Partnership for Early Literacy” achieved effect sizes in the range of .24 to .80 in children’s language, pre-literacy and pre-mathematics abilities.
Structural Disadvantages of Funding for Public Charter Schools
As the District of Columbia begins hearing on the budgets for DC Public Schools (“DCPS”) and DC Public Charter Schools (“PCS”), its useful to know some facts and figures regarding the structural disadvantages that public charter schools have in funding.
