Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g4DBvKu17787; Mon, 13 May 2002 07:57:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 07:57:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <NCBBKFFJMKFIFAGAFGNEEEHLDBAA.jlee@famlit.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Jon Lee" <jlee@famlit.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1098] Clips and Cross Posts X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1784 Lines: 46 Good morning! It's so wet here in Louisville you could float a boat! Hope you're all dry! >From Public Education Network Weekly NewsBlast: Try this little paper for some intriguing thoughts from Paul Begala Connections Newsletter Connections: Americans Want Elected Officials to Defend Public Education (Spring 2002) http://www.publiceducation.org/pubs/pub_connnewsletter.htm >From NICHD and Harvard: A new study published in the May 2002 issue of the journal Psychological Science finds that better caregiver training and lower staff-child ratios in childcare settings lead to improvements in children’s cognitive skills and social competence. The study, which comes out of the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, is the first to provide a link from certain characteristics of childcare that are regulated by states, such as caregiver training and child-staff ratios, to improved cognitive and social development in children. http://public.rti.org/secc/ or http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/features/mccartney05052002.html Cindy Read (from Kentucky Institute for Family Literacy) noted that this particular study reinforces a parents critical role in this way "The study, “Child-Care Structure, Process, Outcome: Direct and Indirect Effects of Child-Care Quality on Young Children’s Development,” also finds that the quality of maternal caregiving is the strongest predictor of a child’s cognitive competence and a moderate predictor of social competence. Have a dry day! Jon Lee Training Specialist NIFL-Family list moderator National Center for Family Literacy 325 West Main St, Suite 300 Louisville, KY 40202-4237 Phone: 502.584.1133 x175 Fax: 502.584.0172 jlee@famlit.org http://www.famlit.org
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