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In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece last month, Dalmia & Snell implore us to protect our kids from preschool. They overview the findings that lasting benefits have only been seen in children who are both low IQ and impoverished. Even Head Start showed no lasting gain, and for middle & upper class children, preschool offers no benefits that last beyond first grade.
We're pushing for all 5 year olds to read, kicking and screaming, yet with no long term results.
( Why don't preschool gains stick? ... )
We're pushing for all 5 year olds to read, kicking and screaming, yet with no long term results.
( Why don't preschool gains stick? ... )
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devious
AMDG
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Michaelangelo maria lactansThere are many kinds of success in life worth having. It's exceedingly interesting and attractive to be ...a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or kill grizzly bears and lions. But... a household of children... certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt
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