The Massachusetts Board of Early Education and Care voted at its April meeting to revise child care subsidy regulations, effective July 1. Roughly 56,000 children currently receive state financial assistance for early education and care. The vote came a year after the Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) released proposed amendments for public comment. [...]
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At the April EEC Board Meeting
Posted in Assessments, Dept. of Early Education and Care, QRIS on April 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In Quotes
Posted in Assessments, Quotes on April 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
“There are legitimate reasons why assessing preschool children has been an unpopular idea. When assessment systems result in high-stress experiences for our children or purposeless additions to professionals’ plates, we can all be concerned. However, by neglecting to regularly evaluate our young children’s language and early reading skills, we have done more harm than good. [...]
NAEYC Offers Guidance on Early Childhood Assessment
Posted in Assessments, Early Learning Challenge on April 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Kindergarten entry assessment is a key – and sometimes controversial – component of the federal Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge (ELC) initiative. The central question is how to conduct systemic, developmentally appropriate assessment of young children and use the results to inform instruction. The National Association for the Education of Young Children [...]
In Quotes
Posted in Assessments, Quotes, Reading proficiency on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“If we want [children] to graduate high school and go to college, we need to have them reading at grade level by third grade. That’s not a magical number. It’s what the data tells us…. We can’t wait for the third grade MCAS scores to tell us whether a child is on track or not. [...]
At the February EEC Board Meeting
Posted in Assessments, Dept. of Early Education and Care, Family engagement on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Massachusetts Board of Early Education and Care last week unanimously approved a measure to align the Massachusetts Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) grant program with the Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) that the commonwealth launched in January 2011. (See UPK-QRIS PowerPoint.) The board also approved the annual report to the Legislature from the Department of [...]
In Quotes
Posted in Assessments, Quotes on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“We know that waiting until the end of third grade to acquire a systematic picture of how well children are learning is a mistake. We must use early childhood assessments to drive efforts to provide enriched, engaging, and intensive learning opportunities to every child, and prevent or minimize achievement disparities right from the start.” Council [...]
Considering Kindergarten Entry Assessments
Posted in Assessments, Early Learning Challenge on January 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
With the Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge stressing kindergarten entry assessment among its goals, the question of how to assess young children in a developmentally appropriate manner has been getting a lot of attention. In its successful Early Learning Challenge application, Massachusetts committed to establishing a system of developmentally appropriate assessment of [...]
In Quotes
Posted in Assessments on October 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“I know assessments can be a hot-button issue. What I would hope the assessment will give us is good information about where children are, so we are able to match resources to help those children.’’ Amy O’Leary, Early Education for All, Boston Sunday Globe, October 2, 2011
MA Developing Kindergarten Readiness Assessment
Posted in Assessments, Early Learning Challenge, Federal on October 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Efforts to introduce a statewide system of developmentally appropriate kindergarten readiness assessment was front page news in yesterday’s Boston Sunday Globe. “Kindergartners – who are not expected to know how to read or write – would not be filling in bubble sheets or answering essay questions,” the Globe reports. “Instead, teachers would measure students’ early [...]
At the September EEC Board Meeting
Posted in Assessments, Dept. of Early Education and Care, Early Learning Challenge, Federal, QRIS on September 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The September meeting of the Massachusetts Board of Early Education and Care opened on a somber note, with a moment of silence in memory of Gabriel Josh-Cazir Pierre, the toddler who died earlier in the week after being left unattended for hours in a van. In the wake of the tragedy, EEC is reviewing its [...]
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