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Facts In Action
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In
Brief:
Promoting
Social and Emotional School Readiness
Social
and emotional development are as important to school readiness and
later academic success as cognitive and intellectual development.
Multiple research studies have shown that young children who are
delayed in their social development participate less in classroom
activities and perform poorly academically and, as adolescents,
are more likely to be held back and are at greater risk of dropping
out.
The
National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) has released a policy
paper focusing on strategies to promote social and emotional school
readiness among three- and four-year-old children. These strategies
include:
- getting
young children who are at risk of early school failure on a positive
school trajectory as soon as possible - investments in the early
social and emotional development of children will pay off later
as they acquire skills necessary to succeed in school and social
environments;
- for
those families and children who need specialized resources to
address the emotional and behavioral difficulties that make teaching
and caregiving difficult, making appropriate early intervention
strategies and services available; and
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ensuring all children have access to quality early care and learning
experiences in warm, stimulating environments.
NCCP
believes that following these recommendations is an important step
to help promote social and emotional school readiness among all
young children, especially those at risk for developmental delays
and difficulties.
Source:
Ready to Enter: What Research Tells Policymakers About Strategies
to Promote Social and Emotional School Readiness Among Three- and
Four-Year-Old Children, C. Raver and J. Knitzer, National Center
for Children in Poverty, 2002.
For
more information:
contact National Center for Children in Poverty, 154 Haven Avenue,
New York, NY 10032, by phone at (212) 304-7100, by email at nccp@columbia.edu,
or online at cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/nccp/ProEmoPP3.pdf.Editor's note: This url has changed:http://www.nccp.org
Facts in Action, August 2002
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