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First Things First!

Creating the New American Primary School

By: Ruby Takanishi

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First Things First!

Creating the New American Primary School

By: Ruby Takanishi

Challenging policymakers, educators, reformers, and citizens to replace piecemeal reforms with fundamental redesign, First Things First! calls for a different way of organizing the American primary school. Ruby Takanishi outlines a new framework for integrating early education with primary education (pre-K–5), including both short- and long-term strategies, that starts with 3- and 4-year-olds. Featuring portraits of primary schools that have successfully integrated pre–K, the book includes resources on dual-language learners, dual-generation family engagement, effective philanthropy, rethinking advocacy, and more. The book centers on four basic questions: Why should the United States design a new primary school as children’s first, widely shared educational experience? How can the educators of the new primary school use new knowledge about how children learn to improve their practice? What will it take to create a new primary school that educates all children well? How can the design of the new primary school reflect demographic, social, linguistic, and cultural changes and adapt to the requirements of a global economy? First Things First! reframes the basic structure of traditional primary education, challenging us to get the early years of a 21st-century public education system off to a new and stronger start. “The vision of a new primary school model in this book should be studied by all workers in the fields of education, human development, and social policy. The scholarship in this book is impeccable and the arguments advanced by this leading scholar are most convincing. Further, the book is beautifully written.” —Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Yale University “Takanishi makes a compelling case that enabling all American children to achieve their potential requires both expansion of high-quality preschool and fundamental changes in how our public elementary schools serve young students.” —Sara Mead, Bellwether Education Partners “Dr. Takanishi has laid out a vision and approach to schooling that is comprehensive, forward-looking, and versed in strong evidence. This is must-reading for educators, leaders, policymakers, and researchers.” —Arthur Reynolds, University of Minnesota

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0807774081

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First Things First!

Creating the New American Primary School

By: Ruby Takanishi

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First Things First!

Creating the New American Primary School

By: Ruby Takanishi

This book draws on a half century of efforts (1960s to the present) to forge a consensus that early education is a public responsibility in the United States. While that consensus has not yet been achieved, recent progress provides a platform for identifying new strategies, based on lessons learned. Transforming the American primary school, starting with threes and fours and ending at age ten (PreK-5) is the focusof First Things First. This book calls attention to the relative neglect of primary or elementary education in the recurring waves of education reform that have targeted middle and high schools. First Things First also points to the chaos generated when PreK is added onto the K-12 grades without attention to its ramifications for the later grades, especially Kindergarten. The book will also briefly address what should happen before PreK (Birth to Three) and after Grade 5, including middle and high school reform, to position the new primary school in an educational enterprise that is committed to life-long learning.

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0807756938

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Early Schooling in Asia

By: Ruth Bettelheim,Ruby Takanishi

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Early Schooling in Asia

By: Ruth Bettelheim,Ruby Takanishi

Early schooling in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and India.

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McGraw-Hill Companies

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0070051275

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Early Schooling in Asia

By: Ruth Bettelheim,Ruby Takanishi

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By: Ruth Bettelheim,Ruby Takanishi

Early schooling in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and India.

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Adolescence in the 1990s

Risk and Opportunity

By: Ruby Takanishi

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Adolescence in the 1990s

Risk and Opportunity

By: Ruby Takanishi

This collection of papers derives from the work of the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development; it is aimed at those concerned with the administration of education, policy-makers and researchers. Topics include: adolescent role-lessness; parent-school involvement; and health and education.

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080773330X

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