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...look at one of the causes. Since we ask the child to adapt to the system in public education, it seems only proper that we give him a fair chance. Dr. Bakalis thinks that going back to the basics will solve the problem. I would like to suggest making kindergarten mandatory, and testing to determine if a child is ready for kindergarten. Nothing succeeds like success, and "readiness...
...having remarkable success bringing the basics of economics to their students. Grade-schoolers really want to know how this system operates." And Assistant Professor Norman Ellenberg of California State University, Los Angeles has started an economics education program for children in the Los Angeles city school system-beginning in kindergarten...
...this: that I'm more certain than ever that we must reduce military outlays if we plan to release resources that we need for other important things. We're faced, for example, with a crisis in the financing of education in this country that extends all the way from kindergarten through the Ph.D. The whole question of adequate student aid to permit qualified students to go on to college is a very serious matter in this country. And the problems of the environment which stay with us--the fuel shortage, the shortages in other things that are necessary...
Carrying their studies further, the Munich researchers observed two groups in nine color-coordinated rooms. During the same period, a separate control group played in a conventional kindergarten. After six months, the experimental groups, who had played in "beautifully" colored rooms with "beautifully" colored building blocks, had outstripped the controls by an average of 15 IQ points, even though the children in the control group had started out with slightly higher intelligence scores. After 18 months the experimental group was 25 points ahead...
Primary Instinct. One other conclusion of the Munich group is that children prefer ceilings less than 7 ft. high. "It's almost a primary instinct," explains Ertel. "They want to explore their environment through touching. In the kindergarten experiment, the first thing the children did every morning was pile up the blocks so that they could climb up and reach the ceiling...