November 12, 2009
Words Matter: a New Way to Improve Schools
In Dallas, a dozen private and community foundations are saturating a Hispanic neighborhood with educational programs for parents and very young children. The goal: to increase the vocabulary of kids entering kindergarten.
The effort is unusual for its focus on a single neighborhood — Bachman Lake — and for basing success on the sole measure of increasing the number of words that kindergartners know.
National experts in early-childhood education hope
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