{"id":160,"date":"2004-04-04T08:22:09","date_gmt":"2004-04-04T08:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2004-04-04T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2004-04-04T08:22:09","slug":"blocks_nap_time_giving_way_to_language_and_reading_programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Blocks, nap time giving way to language and reading programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics.jsonline.com\/graphics\/news\/img\/apr04\/chris0403.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/metro\/apr04\/219303.asp\">Sarah Carr writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Many researchers see the root causes of this gap in the early years. There is a growing conviction that even good schools cannot do enough for students who start far behind.<br \/>\n&#8220;If we send kids to kindergarten with this big gap, we can be pretty sure that as things stand, the gap is not only going to remain, but will get bigger,&#8221; said Deborah Stipek, the dean of Stanford University&#8217;s School of Education.<br \/>\nIncreasingly, educators are focusing on preschool programs as a critical step in making up the deficit, and they are developing &#8211; or being pushed to develop &#8211; programs that are more overtly academic than ever. Nationally, some programs are cutting nap time; others have instituted more formal assessments. Literacy blocks &#8211; the jargon for early language and reading programs &#8211; are becoming as common as wood blocks.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Carr writes: Many researchers see the root causes of this gap in the early years. There is a growing conviction that even good schools cannot do enough for students who start far behind. &#8220;If we send kids to kindergarten with this big gap, we can be pretty sure that as things stand, the gap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}