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...system. And while the manner in which Romney is pressing the issue is severely flawed the initiative itself is uncharacteristically promising. A key part of the governor’s nascent proposal is the implementation of full-day kindergarten in under-performing school districts, where most students currently only attend school for half...
...kindergarten are more likely to demonstrate higher achievement over the course of their educations. But as many as 214 of the state’s 372 school districts don’t yet offer kindergarten for more than the half-day minimum, splitting their students into groups that attend class before or after noon. While the investment required to guarantee full-day education for all 10 year-olds in under-performing districts—$1 billion spread over 10 years—is by no means negligible, the long-termbenefits are even more significant. The money sacrificed today to begin...
...Romney’s paternalistic proposal would attempt to involve parents by force; under his plan, children would be excluded from the new all-day kindergartens if their parents were unwilling—or more likely, unable—to attend two days of parenting-skill training. This idea’s degeneracy is made clear by observations almost too simple to escape even Romney himself, namely that parents who live in under-performing school districts often can’t afford to sacrifice two days’ worth of wages and that compulsory presence at parenting school smacks...
...despite his opposition to Bond’s design, Zuckerberg said he also plans to attend...
...need to return to programs and ideas that will lift up the poor,” Gephardt said, reminding viewers that scholarships and government programs helped him attend college. “We’ve had a president who’s been there for big business, we need a president who will be there for workers...