Virtual program might help kids get ready for kindergarten
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19 May 2021, 04:03 GMT+10
Washington [US], March 18 (ANI): With pandemic lockdowns still in place last summer, The Ohio State University couldn t host its in-person Summer Success Program to help preschoolers from low-income families prepare for kindergarten.
A study published in Early Education and Development suggested that a fully virtual program could work with these 4 and 5-year-olds, who had no previous experience with preschool.
Researchers found that the reimagined Summer Success at Home program was feasible to operate, was popular with teachers and parents, and had at least modest success in helping the children learn literacy skills, early math skills, and emotional understanding.
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Pandemic screen time tops 6 hours a day for some kindergartners
Kindergartners from low-income families spent more than six hours a day in front of screens during two early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a small Ohio study suggests.
That is nearly double the screen time found before the pandemic in similar children, according to other research.
Caregivers from low-income households may have faced more difficulties than those from more advantaged families in managing the time their children spent watching TV and using computers, phones and tablets when child care was shut down, according to the researchers.
Still, the results are concerning, said Rebecca Dore, lead author of the study and senior research associate at The Ohio State University’s Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy.
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The pharmacy at MetroHealth in Cleveland catalogs the batch number on a Pfizer vaccine vial. (John Kuntz, cleveland.com)
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CLEVELAND, Ohio As Ohio looks to vaccinate school staff at 500 schools over the course of its first week, districts are welcoming back students into buildings.
Buildings are beginning to open up ahead of the state beginning to vaccinate staff at districts or schools that agree to return in person, fully or partially, by March 1. About 45% of students in public school districts are now fully in-person, with 36% in partial in-person. Gov. Mike DeWine, who backs the choice to prioritize educators for the vaccine as a “policy decision” to get kids back in buildings, attributed the shift to in-person instruction to the promise of the vaccine.