Business Leaders: Greater Preschool Access Crucial To State Future

Thursday, May 31, 2012 Business Leaders: Greater Preschool Access Crucial To State Future MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. -- Inadequate preschooling is causing Michigan students to fall behind early, making it harder to develop the talented workforce needed for the state to be competitive, business leaders said Wednesday. A coalition of companies and organizations urged government policymakers to erase a shortage of preschooling for underprivileged children, saying about one-third of the state's pupils leave kindergarten ill-prepared to begin first grade. Recent Grad Turns Her Struggle To Find Work Into Children's Book State Rep. Blocks Traffic To Keep Detroit High School Open State Speaker Strikes Last-Minute Deal To Pass Pension Reforms Times Higher Education 100 Under 50: The World's Best New Universities Can You Really Teach A Kid To Become Bullyproof? BLOG POSTS Ryan Holiday: How to Write Any Essay: The Spartan System Here is a paper-writing system that does all your work for you. See if you can beat the record: an 8 page paper in 3 hours... with a nice big A+ stamped on the front. Susan Kaiser Greenland: An Introduction to Mindfulness for Teachers and Their Students The secular mindfulness approach we teach is not a narrow one that offers techniques for every "difficult" situation, but rather a process-oriented approach through which educators learn a way of being with youth that strengthens and supports how they communicate and teach. Meryl Ain, Ed.D.: Bullying Can't Be Solved With More Bullying Hastily meting out consequences to satisfy a public relations problem hurts everyone and compromises the integrity of the entire school system. Cheryl Arnett: Romney in Small Town America: Coal vs. Kids We live in a country where we are blessed to be able to choose our leader and state our opinions freely. I was blessed to have the opportunity to state mine to a powerful person yesterday. Jessica Minahan: Behavior Plans: Another Type of Teaching Plan Because misbehavior is symptomatic of an underlying disability that's intensified by situational triggers, behavior plans should more aptly be thought of as teaching plans.

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