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Thursday, November 20, 2008

White House Summit on Early Childhood Cognitive Development

Rating: 21
Site summary: An Address by Grover J. (Russ) Whitehurst, the Assistant Secretary of Education for Research and Improvement for the U.S. Department of Education on July 26, 2001. Mr. Whitehurst focuses on the pre-reading skills that children acquire in the preschool period and how these skills, or the absence of them, affects a child’s later ability to learn to read.
We chose this site because it is very important to be informed about cognitive development in the preschool period.
http://www.earlyreadingplayschool.com.au/OurStrategy/YP/os-yp-whitehouse.htm
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