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My Research Paper Topic: Special Education Inclusion classes are inclusion classrooms || * What do parents have to say about inclusion? || * Every grade can have an inclusion class || into general education classrooms || * What do teachers have to say about inclusion? || * Parents of non-disabled students are not generally upset about putting their children in inclusion classroom || classrooms || * Which is more beneficial for students, inclusion or special schools? || * Parents of disabled students do not always want to have their students in general education classrooms ||  **Purpose Statement:** The purpose of this research paper is to examine the topic of prekindergarten and to determine if prekindergarten students show student achievement in higher grades in comparison to students who did not attend prekindergarten.
 * KWL Assignment **
 * What I KNOW || What I WANT to Know || What I LEARNED ||
 * * Many public prekindergarten
 * * More and more disabled students are going
 * * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Parents are generally against inclusion
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Purpose and Thesis Statement Assignment **


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thesis Statement: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Many public schools have begun to offer prekindergarten programs and studies have showed that attending prekindergarten puts students ahead in later grades.

Is it your belief that going to pre-k alone is what's putting these children ahead? Has the home life of the children been taken into account? __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Annotated Bibliography: __

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chien, N. C., Howes, C., & Burchinal, M., (2010). Children's classroom engagement and school readiness gains in prekindergarten. Child Development, 81(5), 1534-1549. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01490.x

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This article described a study with 2,751 children with the average age of 4.62. All students where currently enrolled in public prekindergarten programs.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Umek, L., Kranjc, S., Fekonja, U., & Bajc, K. (2008). The effect of preschool on children's school readiness. Early Child Development & Care, 178(6), 569-588. doi: 10.1080/03004430600851280

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This peer-reviewed journal describes a study developed to investigate the effect that preschool has on children's school readiness “in connection with their intellectual abilities, language competence and parents' education”. The sample included 219 children from 68 to 83 months old attending the first year of primary school, differentiated by whether or not they had attended preschool before starting school.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Gormley Jr., W. T. (2005). The Universal Pre-K Bandwagon. Phi Delta Kappan, 87(3), 246-249. Retrieved from []. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">use the publisher url and not the link to Towson's databases.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This article give background information on prekindergarten and describes its positive consequences on children.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Gormley, J. T., Gayer, T., Phillips, D., & Dawson, B. (2005). The Effects of Universal Pre-K on Cognitive Development.Developmental Psychology, 41(6), 872-884. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.41.6.872

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This study shows the impact that prekindergarten has on cognitive development in students. The authors estimated the impact of the pre-K treatment on Woodcock-Johnson Achievement test scores.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Buntaine, R. L., & Costenbader, V. K. (1997). The effectiveness of a transitional prekindergarten program on later academic acheivement. Psychology in the Schools, 34(1), 41. Retrieved from [].

<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Furlow, E. (2007, June 25). <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%;">Pre-kindergarten advantage sets stage for student success <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">. //<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">The Center for Public Education //. Retrieved from http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This website describes an actual prekindergarten program and includes many quotes from the Missouri principal, Jane Walter.

NOTE: Be sure that journal titles are italicized in your paper. I assume that formatting just didn't consistently copy to the wiki, but wanted to make sure you double-checked that in the final paper. Also, you sometimes capitalized journal article titles incorrectly. Only the first word, a word after a colon and any proper nouns get capitalized. __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Paper Outline: __

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The purpose of this research paper is to examine the topic of prekindergarten and to determine if preschool and prekindergarten students show student achievement in higher grades in comparison to students who did not attend prekindergarten.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Abstract: **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Among the many reasons some students excel academically in school more so than others is because they attended a quality, developmentally appropriate preschool or prekindergarten program; therefore, it is critical that all students be given this opportunity.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thesis: **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">“Advocates for universal preK generally want to supplement, not replace, Head Start”
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Background on Preschool and Pre-K: <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">don't forget to include (author, year, p. #) for all these quotes **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">only Florida, Georgia, and Oklahoma offer preK to every 4-year-old.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">“While a new universal preK programs would be expensive, proponents believe the benefits would far outweight the costs.”


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Why people do not think that Preschool and Pre-K are necessary/too costly: **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Study of 2,751 children (mean age = 4.62) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Enrolled in public prekindergarten programs
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Studies that have been done to show that Preschool and Pre-K help students in the long run: **


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Explain why they helped them in the long run: **


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Conclusion: **