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While speaking only in Mandarin, teacher Li Jing Jing shows her kindergartners at J. Ralph McIlvaine Early Childhood Center in Delaware how to fold a paper turkey. Half the day the children are taught in Chinese and half the day in English.
—Matt Roth for Education Week

Elementary Pupils Immersed in Foreign Language

Delaware and Utah are funding foreign-language instruction at the elementary level in hopes of fostering achievement and economic growth. (November 30, 2012)

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Strategies for Online Elementary Education
Guests discussed the challenges of delivering elementary education online, and the best strategies for engaging and supporting K-5 students virtually.

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In Chicago, at least 14 percent of kindergarteners and 62 percent of preschoolers were chronically absent in 2009-10, according to a Catalyst Chicago analysis.
September 9, 2011 - Education Week
The attorney for a family suing Chicago Public Schools over the alleged handcuffing of a first-grader in 2010 said Tuesday the boy was among several 6- and 7-year-olds who were detained and handcuffed for hours for talking in class.
August 31, 2011 - McClatchy-Tribune
August 8, 2011 - Education Week
To help 3rd graders become proficient in reading, new laws and initiatives are focusing on the preschool to 2nd grade years.
June 29, 2011 | Updated: March 24, 2012 - Education Week
Nationally, the years spanning prekindergarten to 3rd grade are seen as crucial and are the subject of ambitious initiatives.
June 14, 2011 - Education Week
The whole-class novel and the basal reader are alienating students from the written word and these practices must be stopped, writes Pam Allyn.
June 14, 2011 - Education Week
Concerns mount of a ripple effect if program funding suffers in the federal budget battle.
March 15, 2011 - Education Week
Students using the program are showing improvements in both their proficiency and their attitudes toward math.
March 14, 2011 - Education Week
One exception is the University of Utah, where aspiring urban teachers get exposed to 'tiered-instruction' techniques in all their core classes.
February 28, 2011 - Education Week
While response to intervention has won over some parents, others complain the schooling approach has delayed needed services for children with learning problems.
February 28, 2011 - Education Week

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