School Readiness Testing

Now offering school standardized, norm-based readiness tests to licensed childcare centers in selected cities in Texas. However, this and other tests to gauge and plan for academic achievement (but not IQ tests) are available to families. Contact me for scheduling. info@NOSPAMorgstrat.net Know exactly how your child stacks up to expectation as he or she enters…

Lower SES Students do Better in Private Schools

“Students in the lowest SES quartile who attended a private school in 8th grade were nearly four times more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree than students from the same quartile who attended a public school.” — Council for American Private Education This is a significant statement. Students in private school outperform public school —…

New Summer School-Aged Program

Vacation Liberty School, a new program for your elementary aged summer program. It teaches the history of the founding of our nation in an interactive and fun way for ages 5-10, and runs about 20 hours. Founders visit. Games abound. Inspiring and well researched. This is about 20 hours. Cast normally present every morning in…

Promised list of resources for children's learning problems in Austin now posted.

Here is the promised to post resources in Austin for children with special learning needs .   This is not necessarily an exhaustive list, just the ones I know about. Please be invited to post your favorites too.  I do think every director ought to have a list. Autism Spectrum Disorder Johnson Center The Johnson…

Importance of Play

Here is another article, also urging play over kill-and-drill for preschoolers. http://braininsights.blogspot.com/2010/08/brain-fact-early-childhood-programs.html I am for hands-on, but I want to be clear that play is not aimless.  I would not urge aimless, non education  during school. “Drill and kill” may be correctly labeled. Early childhood educators should be well aware of the importance of play.…