Healthy Day – Staff Writer
“Children entering kindergarten need to be socially and behaviorally ready for school or they may struggle in later grades, a new study suggests. “In 2015, kindergarten teachers rated more than half of students behind in social and behavioral skills needed for learning, and it’s painful for the children who want to succeed, but become frustrated and hopeless,” study author Deborah Gross, a professor of mental health and psychiatric nursing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a university news release. The research included more than 9,000 public school students in Baltimore who were followed from kindergarten to fourth grade.”(more)