School-Based Child Care Meets Myriad Needs

Harrisburg, Pa.

Tasha Hoover had been over this in her child-care-theory class: Children need to understand the consequences of their actions.

So when the little boy sitting next to her crushed his plastic cup during a classroom activity, it was her chance to explain this important lesson. Sitting at round tables in child-size chairs, the preschoolers had been given cotton balls and plastic cups and were told to do anything they wished with the materials. Most stuffed as many cotton balls as they could into the cups, except for...