{"id":2136,"date":"2012-05-01T16:09:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T20:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2012-05-01T16:12:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T20:12:38","slug":"kindergarten-the-changes-from-play-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2012\/05\/kindergarten-the-changes-from-play-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindergarten: The Changes from Play to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0\u201cIn the United States, how do the learning goals and curriculum for kindergarten classrooms differ from it&#8217;s adoption in the early 1900s to today? And why have they changed?<\/p>\n<p>Thesis:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the early 1900s kindergarten&#8217;s curriculum encouraged play and natural development<\/li>\n<li>Reason: kids need a year to prepare for school, not ready for academic pressures<\/li>\n<li>Today, kindergarten&#8217;s curriculum encourages academic learning<\/li>\n<li>Reasons for the change: preschool has adopted the play-like curriculum, and because of the pressures from standardize testing and parents, kindergarten&#8217;s role has shifted to being academic-based instead<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p>Jen Scott Curwood: What Happened To Kindergarten<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>why original model was implemented<\/li>\n<li>how kindergarten has changed<\/li>\n<li>why kindergarten has changed<\/li>\n<li>Interesting fact: a decade ago, only 15% of kindergartens could read. today in a county in Maryland, 90% of kindergartens could read<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/files\/2012\/05\/4.pdf\">4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0\u201cIn the United States, how do the learning goals and curriculum for kindergarten classrooms differ from it&#8217;s adoption in the early 1900s to today? And why have they changed? Thesis: In the early 1900s kindergarten&#8217;s curriculum encouraged play and natural development Reason: kids need a year to prepare for school, not ready for academic pressures &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2012\/05\/kindergarten-the-changes-from-play-to-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kindergarten: The Changes from Play to Work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}