Developmentally Appropriate Practice

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The article by Sue Bredekamp “Early Learning Standards and Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Contradictory or Compatible?” highlights the movements toward early learning standards, the potential negative and positive consequences, and the relations of learning standards and accountability. From my understanding, the main idea of the article is concerning the practices of learning standards in early childhood. This article is used to explain the research done in the development of learning standards. Each subject (language and literacy, science and mathematics, social studies and the arts) has a created standard developed by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). From a political standpoint, the teaching