BBCNEWS Newsday December 23, 2021 00:20:00
Enrolment is down, as parents either don't feel safe sending their kids back to school, or they've left the city altogether. i spoke to bruce fuller, a sociologist who studies early childhood, about the effects of all this pandemic anxiety on how kids learn. we've long known that it's social, emotional comfortl and motivation children feel| that provides the foundation for cognitive growth— and pre—literacy development, oral language development. so, if kids are feeling - anxious, if they're wearing masks in pre—k, theyjust don't have that immediate social- interaction and base—level- ...
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