The transition to kindergarten

TLDR

Kindergarten marks the first formal schooling experience, bringing families, schools, teachers, and communities together into an educational partnership. The book examines early schooling research to prompt reexamination of beliefs, policies, and practices, emphasizing the need to improve transitions and their effect on future educational success. The authors discuss readiness assessment, entrance ages, grade retention, classroom structure, family‑school‑community partnerships, cultural diversity, children with disabilities, and children in poverty, as part of a series edited by Donald B. Bailey Jr.

Abstract

Today's kindergarten is the onset of formal schooling for children the first time families, schools, teachers, and communities come together to form an educational partnership. In this thought-provoking, issues-focused book, the experts explore the research on early schooling and give you a starting point with which to reexamine your beliefs, policies, and practices regarding the first years of school. Scholars, researchers, and other professionals will discover why early school transitions need to be improved and how these critical transitions affect children's future educational success. You'll learn about readiness assessment entrance ages grade retention classroom structure family school community partnerships cultural diversity children with disabilities children in poverty This book is part of a series edited by Donald B. Bailey, Jr., Ph.D., and developed in conjunction with the National Center for Early Development and Learning (NCEDL). Visit NCEDL's website for information on the center's research, upcoming meetings, and free online publications..