Fighting Fade-Out Through PreK-3rd Reform

Research has documented impressive academic advantages among children who attend high-quality early education programs. Yet many teachers have seen the promise of programs like pre-kindergarten and Head Start fade-out by the time children finish 3rd grade because their elementary schools are not prepared to nurture and sustain this early growth. In this video Christina Satkowski of the New America Foundations Early Education Initiative describes an effective way to combat fade-out through a program of early elementary alignment known as PreK-3rd Reform. The video features a discussion with Dr. Jerry Weast, Superintendent of Montgomery County Schools in Maryland, a district that has successfully used PreK-3rd reform as a way to close achievement gaps and improve academic success for all students in the district.

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• pre-k
• pre-kindergarten
• Head Start
• preK-3rd

[mmiller20910]

Don't believe Dr. Weast's hype. One by one, he is eliminating proven programs with the youngest special ed students, over the fierce objections of parents and special ed experts.

[ParentsCoalitionNews]

50% of the students that started out as "Weast's kids" are no longer in the school system. They are the kids who are now 8th graders - not sophomores. There is no focus on the kids that enter MCPS in the later years. That means that 50% of the kids in MCPS high schools have not been included in any "reforms".