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SLOW START The risk factors that foretell academic trouble for many students begin to take their toll as early as kindergarten, reports a Department of Education study. Children from low-income households headed by parents with little education had poorer number and letter skills, more problem behaviors and more illness. The study suggests intervention in preschool, along with Head Start programs and quality child care...
Some of my best friends are scientists. Naturally, I take this is as an opportunity to settle the grand issues of time, space and everything else that I slept through in kindergarten...
What is going on? If one listens to the rhetoric coming from each side, it sounds like a kindergarten quarrel. It is important not to get caught up in the rhetoric and instead analyze the recent events in their historical context...
...wife Sally gave $100 million to their alma mater, the University of Mississippi, to promote reading in the state that ranks last in literacy (a third of its adults can't read a sports story or a map). The couple's donation will provide every child from kindergarten through Grade 3 with the sort of help with reading that got Barksdale launched...
Walter Milancuk's public-school horror story began early, when his son Derrick spent kindergarten in an overcrowded roomful of students who regularly fought in class and cursed the teacher. Milancuk wanted to transfer Derrick, but his salary as a forklift driver couldn't cover private-school tuition. Yet Milancuk found a way out, thanks to Cleveland's pioneering school-voucher program, which granted him close to $1,500 in state funds to help enroll Derrick at St. Stanislaus, a nearby Catholic school. Now Derrick wears a crisp uniform. His reading has improved. And the weekly Mass and Bible study...