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...Logo," put out by Teacher Support Software and used by 3,800 kindergartners in Texas' Cypress-Fairbanks School District. "Taco Bell has [blank] and burritos," one test sentence runs. Insists Suzanne Thompson, early-childhood coordinator for the district: "They have been going to Taco Bell since long before kindergarten. This connects to their prior learning." But Alex Molnar, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of a book on corporations in the classroom, argues that "the long-term impact is to undermine and trivialize the curriculum...
...discussed at the conference are aimed at both government and business. Conferees proposed, for example, that the care of the young and the old should be "critical elements of our economic structure,'' says Bookman. That means, among other things, preserving Medicare coverage for elder care, extending public education below kindergarten and providing prorated benefits for part-time workers...
...children speaking only French, from the Pledge of Allegiance ("Je declare fidelite au drapeau des Etats-Unis...") through recess to the end of the day. The kids even talk out of turn in French. "They're so eager to learn everything, they pick it up like a sponge," says kindergarten teacher Janet Lawrence...
...randomly selected group of kindergarten-through-fifth-grade low-income students in Hartford, Connecticut, nearly all of them black, were offered the opportunity to attend school in a dozen virtually all-white suburbs. Sixteen years later, researchers tracked down more than a thousand of those who had been tapped for the program and a like number of those who had not. Crain found that males in the test group were significantly more likely to have completed two or more years of college and less likely to have dropped out of high school or got in trouble with the police...
...most forceful indication that parents are disappointed in the public schools is the intense competition to get into private ones, from kindergarten through high school. The key to success is the juku, an evening and weekend cram school where children from the age of four prepare for entrance examinations. Nearly 60% of junior high school students take juku classes, which cost their parents as much as $400 a month. They usually study material at least a year ahead of the public school curriculum and endure rigorous schedules that leave no time for the playground...