In this article from the Wall Street Journal (8/19/2010), Shelly Banjo discusses how parents are hiring consultants to coach their preschoolers on the art of the kindergarten admissions interview. Like most things in New York, the sessions don’t come cheap. Aristotle Circle charges $400 for a 45-minute observation and assessment. Bright Kids NYC, a [...]
Archive for the ‘News Articles About Preschool’ Category
Wall Street Journal – Prepping for the Playdate Test
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010New York Times: Some Private Schools Drop the ERB Test
Friday, May 7th, 2010New York Times – 5/7/10 Private School Screening Test Loses Some Clout by Jenny Anderson At least two schools in Manhattan have dropped the [ERB] exam as a requirement for admission starting this fall, bucking a trend of more widespread use of such tests. More broadly, a powerful coalition of New York schools is contending [...]
New York City Preschool Articles
Friday, May 7th, 2010Big Kindergarten Wait List Limits Pre-K Slots (6/10/11) Maintaining Pre-K Day, via Tuition (6/16/11) The Pre-K Underground (co-ops in NYC) (12/16/11) Raising Standards for Head Start (1/3/12) Risks: More Woes for Preemies at Preschool Age (12/19/11) Suit Faults Test Preparation at Preschool (3/14/11) Wall Street Journal’s Prepping for the Playdate Test (8/19/10) New York Times’ Private [...]
Seattle Times article on Cedarsong Nature Preschool 4/20/10
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010Outdoor preschool takes root on Vashon Island Seattle Times 4/20/10 by Susan Gilmore A preschool on Vashon Island is held completely outdoors, rain or shine, and it’s so popular that it has a waiting list. That these youngsters, ages 3 to 5, can identify the plants and know which are edible may seem incredible. [...]
New York Times: Crayon-Chewing Time for Nursery School Directors (4/7/96)
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010New York Times Article Sifting Sandbox Aptitude Tests; Crayon-Chewing Time for Nursery School Directors by Elisabeth Bumiller April 7, 1996 One of the rituals of spring in fin de siecle Manhattan is getting a child admitted to a prestigious nursery school, never a task for the fainthearted. The process triggers the usual stories about letters [...]
New York Times Article: The Blue School
Thursday, April 1st, 2010New York Times Inventive New Private School Hits Old Hurdles by Jenny Anderson April 1, 2010 The founders of the Blue School aspired to create something different: a private school not fixated on the Ivy League prospects of preschoolers and devoid of admissions hysteria. The school was in the East Village, not uptown, and its leaders [...]
New York Times: Parents Forfeit $20k Private School Tuition to Go to Public School for the Gifted
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010It sounds crazy, but it’s true. Parents in New York City whose children are accepted into a private school need to fork over the entire year’s tuition if they choose to go to a “gifted and talented” public school instead. Here’s an excerpt from the May 23, 2008 article in the New York Times by [...]
New York Magazine: Why Kindergarten Admission Tests are Worthless
Friday, February 5th, 2010The cover story of the February 8, 2010 issue of New York magazine discusses how much power the kindergarten admissions test has in determining a child’s future, and how ridiculous that is. The Junior Meritocracy: Should a child’s fate be sealed by an exam he takes at the age of 4? Why kindergarten-admission tests are worthless, [...]
Kindergarten Test Prep for Preschoolers in NYC
Friday, December 4th, 2009According to this article in the 11/20/09 New York Times by Sharon Otterman, more and more parents are sending their kids to test preparation classes to help them get into college kindergarten! Test preparation has long been a big business catering to students taking SATs and admissions exams for law, medical and other graduate schools. But the [...]
NYC now testing preschoolers in public pre-K
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009From the 9/29/09 NY Daily News article, “Parents Puzzled Why Developmental Screening for Pre-K Now Being Enforced,” by Meredith Kolodner: The city is adding the diaper set to the screening process for kids entering the school system – testing all 3- and 4-year- olds in public and subsidized pre-K programs. Developmental screening for prekindergartners has [...]