Hot Topics

Below are topics of high interest to our audience and links to related articles, position papers, and other key documents. Feel free to download and copy in small numbers for educational purposes.

• HighScope President Larry Schweinhart Retiring
• President Obama Commits to Early Education in State of the Union Address
• Clinton Global Initiative America, Early Childhood Statement
• 2011 World Forum on Early Care and Education: Establishing Universal Curriculum Principles
• HighScope President Larry Schweinhart Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
• President's Report — Legislative Briefing, 3/21/2011
• The Limits of Direct Instruction — Article about new research that suggests direct instruction inhibits preschool children's creativity and curiosity.
• Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Reauthorization: Early Childhood Education — HighScope President Dr. Lawrence Schweinhart testifies to Senate on ESEA Reauthorization
• Early Lessons: The HighScope Story — Article and radio program by American RadioWorks
• Challenging behavior in the preschool — Article on how teachers worked with one especially challenging child
• Childhood obesity — Article on preventing obesity-related health problems through classroom movement experiences
• Early literacy Information — Curriculum, assessments, training in early literacy from HighScope
• Early mathematics — Information on how to help young children acquire math concepts
• Perry Preschool Study — Information on the latest results from HighScope's study of the lifetime effects of preschool education; links to statements from other organizations recognizing the Perry Study as evidence supporting the HighScope Curriculum
• International and Regional HighScope Conferences — Deepen your understanding of what HighScope education is at these exciting events.
• State preschool impact — NIEER report highlighting positive results of Michigan School Readiness Program (MSRP) on young children's abilities at kindergarten entry (HighScope partnered with NIEER in this study)
• State standards — Alignments of state early childhood benchmarks with HighScope Curriculum and COR assessment

• Teaching practices that promote learning worldwide — Press release on latest results of IEA Preprimary Study, an international study coordinated at HighScope that reveals four key teaching practices that could dramatically improve early childhood teaching practices worldwide