School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs & the Brookings Institution
Publication Date: 2005, Spring
Publication City: Princeton
Publication State: NJ
Journal: The Future of Children
Journal Volume: 15(1)
Full text available online at: http://www.futureofchildren.org/usr_doc/School_Readiness_Summary.pdf
Abstract (written by WestEd)
This 2-page Executive Summary provides an overview of the Spring 2005 issue of The Future of Children. The issue explores why sizable racial and ethnic discrepancies exist by the time children enter kindergarten and what can be done to address this problem. It also provides strategies for closing the gap — both what does and does not work.
The top strategy it recommends is providing high-quality center-based early childhood education programs for all disadvantaged three- and four-year-olds. These programs would have:
- High-quality learning environments
- Teacher training
- Parent training
- Home visits
- Integration into kindergarten
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From WestEd.org
Education Policy and Practice: Bridging the Divide
There has long been a troubling divide between education policy and practice — and meaningful school reform efforts have suffered as a consequence. WestEd contributors to this volume, Cynthia Greenleaf and Ruth Schoenbach, join some of the most influential voices in education, including Lisa Delpit, Sonia Nieto, Ray Rist, and Richard Elmore in consideration of how race, culture, power, and language affect actual classroom practice.
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