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Whether children are at their parents' workplace or in the basement of a public school or in an idyllic country setting, the approach to learning is undergoing a mini-revolution. Today imagination and play are being stressed as never before. Observes Chicago kindergarten teacher and author Vivian Gussin Paley, winner of a $355,000 MacArthur "genius" grant in recognition of her books about young children: "Essentially, everything you learn in school can be broken down into a story. If you allow children to talk about the little worlds they've created, they'll be able to take on everything...
Americans quiz their kids more than anyone else in the world: 46 million students from kindergarten through high school are subjected to more than 150 million standardized tests each year. The results of that exercise seem dismal. Only 5% of U.S. high school seniors are deemed able to pursue higher mathematical study. By most measures, students in a variety of industrial countries continue to demonstrate that they know far more than their American peers about basics in history, science and reasoning. Who needs more tests...
...more precocious stars is newcomer Monie Love (Simone Johnson), 19, a British import whose crisp diction, smart rhyming and clear, light voice have given her a hit single, It's a Shame. Love entered college in London with the intention of becoming a kindergarten teacher, but then began singing poetry she had written over tapes her cousins sent from America. Her debut album, Down to Earth, sends a message to women about trust, reconciliation and relationships -- all with an ease and restraint that might not have been possible in rap just a few years...
...machine. Some educators are even starting to re-examine such well-established instructional packages as IBM's Writing to Read program. Since 1984, IBM has sold more than 8,500 copies of the $16,500 system, which uses tape recordings and personal computers to teach language skills to kindergarten and first-grade students. Several research articles, including one last summer in the well-regarded Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, have suggested that any benefit kindergartners get from Writing to Read derives more from the extra attention provided by supervising adults...
...children reach school age, it becomes more difficult to separate the impact of drugs from the effects of upbringing and other influences. Yet many teachers think they can see the lingering legacy of crack. Beverly Beauzethier, a New York City kindergarten teacher, agonizes over some of her pupils. "They have trouble retaining basic things. They are not sure of colors or shapes or their names." Their behavior is also out of the ordinary. "Some are passive and cry a lot; sometimes they just sit in a heap in the corner," says Beauzethier. Even worse, "they can be very aggressive with...