It could be said that a good education in our childhood years is very important, as it lays a strong foundation for the rest of our lives. Some people may think that when children are well educated from the onset, they are more likely to go onto college and have...

At the onset of this project, looking for research articles involved a perspective that more is better. While it continues to be important to have enough of a broad range of resources from which to choose, the evaluation table allowed for a more clear understanding of quality over quality. Even...

The 2014 Head Start Impact study, a follow-up of The Head Start Impact Study (HSIS) Final Report indicates some positive early childhood outcomes engendered by the Head Start (HS) Program even though only few impacts on children in Kindergarten through third grade (‘Head Start’, 2014). This signals a variety of...

Abstract Educational assessment is essential to instructional accountability directly relating to learners’ meeting their academic goals. While assessment tools come in different varieties it is the application of authentic assessment techniques where the student engages in learner centered tasks, develops critical thinking, along with both formative and summative applications for...

The key success that stood out to me was undoubtedly the reforms set out in the “Every Child a Winner!” report and the subsequent Education Reform Act of 1993 in Massachusetts, as described in Reville (2015, pp. 185-202). These reforms led Massachusetts from mediocre levels of achievement to some of...