The Seven Steps to Help Boys Love School by Gilliam Linda Marie;

Author:Gilliam, Linda Marie; [Gilliam, Linda Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2015-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

We bet you are wondering what the Annie E. Casey Foundation does:

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is devoted to developing a brighter future for millions of children at risk of poor educational, economical, social and health outcomes. Our work focuses on families, building stronger communities and ensuring access to opportunities, because children need all 3 to succeed. We advance research and solutions to overcome the barriers to success, help communities to demonstrate what works and influence decision makers to invest in strategies based on solid evidence.

As a private philanthropy based in Baltimore and working across the country, we make grants that help federal agencies, states, counties, cities and neighborhoods create more innovative, cost effective responses to the issues that negatively affect children: poverty, unnecessary disconnection from families and communities, with limited access to opportunity.

Since 1948 these efforts have translated into more informed policies and practices and yielded positive results for larger numbers of kids and families.10

Presently, parental worries have driven a thriving market of early reading programs, books, and other products. Parents in Manhattan are paying huge sums of money for various preparatory programs to secure a spot in gifted and talented public kindergarten classes. For the more budget conscious, the Your Baby Can Read! DVDs and flash cards let parents do the training themselves. Unfortunately, the company that produced these has gone out of business.

In July 2012, after its tactics were challenged in a Today Show investigation, a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission resulted in numerous class-action suits. Researchers say that the problem is that no one knows if pushing your young child to read makes any difference. “There’s no evidence that teaching children to read early is a good thing,” says Dr. Susan B. Neuman, a professor of education at the University of Michigan who specializes in early literacy development. “There’s no evidence that says it’s a bad thing either, but there’s just no evidence at all, so parents might be wasting a good deal of their own . . . and their children’s time, when they could be doing other things that really do promote early literacy.” Unfortunately, with the national focus on reading brought about by the No Child Left Behind Act and the implementation of Common Core Standards in today’s classrooms, not to mention the fierce competition for enrollment at top schools and universities, parents are feeling more pressure than ever.

Parents, teachers, and administrators drive to get their children reading as soon as possible to ensure their academic success. “We see an awful lot of parents who are trying to teach their children how to read very early on, in infancy as a matter of fact,” Neuman says. “We think that some of this early push might be more focused on the parents’ needs rather than the kids’ needs.”

Dr. Shannon Ayers, assistant research professor at Rutgers University’s National Institute for Early Education Research, states, “I find the phenomenon shocking, but I don’t blame the parents. Every parent wants what’s best for his or her child.

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