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Putnam City district focusing on youngest students

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A tight budget isn't getting in the way of the Putnam City School District's goal of expanding and improving learning opportunities for young children — good news in what's become a woe-is-me landscape regarding education funding.

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Community Literacy Centers and Oklahoma City Educare form partnership

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Community Literacy Centers Inc. and Oklahoma City Educare have formed a partnership that will allow parents to take literacy classes while their children are enrolled in an early learning program.

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Equity of Test Is Debated as Children Compete for Gifted Kindergarten

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Because test prep “boot camp” and $145-an-hour tutoring is available to those who can pay, children from wealthy families have an advantage, some parents say.

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The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers

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A new study found students with better teachers learned more in kindergarten — and earned more as young adults.

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All-day pre-k needed for Oklahoma City Public Schools

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Bob Ross -- "The demand for all-day prekindergarten is so great in the Oklahoma City area, that, if fully implemented, the district's student population would increase by 1,600 new students."

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Battle ready: Childhood programs need survival plan

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Oklahoma Editorial -- It seems hard to believe state officials would have sacrificed programs that have brought the state national recognition and target some of the state's neediest children. But the fear was real.

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Studying Engineering Before They Can Spell It

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To compete in a global economy, some school districts are offering engineering lessons to students in kindergarten.

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Summer school sun, fun

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At Union Public Schools, the full-day summer school program sneaks in learning between sun, fun and fitness.

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Kids became the heartbeat of city's corporate campus

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A year after American Fidelity Assurance Corp. agreed to adopt a displaced pre-kindergarten class from nearby Wilson Elementary, company officials bid goodbye to a group of children they won't soon forget.

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Pre-kindergarten safe

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Tulsa World Editorial -- State Superintendent of Public Instruction Sandy Garrett said Friday that Oklahoma's programs for 4-year-olds, programs that are rated the country's best, won't be eliminated as a result of budget cuts.

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State should work to save programs for young learners

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Oklahoma Editorial -- Civic and elected leaders from across the state are lining up to prevent drastic budget cuts to the state's early childhood education programs. Education budget makers shouldn't ignore these voices.

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Order protects early childhood ed

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Educare and other education programs will be protected from possible elimination by an executive order issued Friday by Gov. Brad Henry.

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The Plowden Report

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Derek Gillard describes the context and content of the 1967 Plowden Report 'Children and their Primary Schools' and assesses the criticisms that have been made of it in the years since it was published. He argues that it is still an important document which should be read widely today.

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Lawmakers vote to raise kindergarten age

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The earliest age at which California children could start kindergarten would go up three months under a measure passed by the state Senate on Wednesday. Youngsters would have to turn 5 by Sept. 1 under the proposal, which would reduce the state’s kindergarten population by 100,000.

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