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...Vermont, a 1983 law requires that all schools to teach a statewide educational curriculum on substance abuse from Kindergarten through high school. "The curriculum is broad enough for all schools to use," explained Rufus Chaffee, director of the program...
...deplore the methods currently espoused by some preschool educators [EDUCATION, Oct. 8]. Kindergarten should be a place for whetting the appetite to learn, not a place for homework and tests...
Your discussion of early learning aptly uses the term battleground to label the debate over appropriate kindergarten teaching. As with any fight, this one also has casualties. In this case, it is the youngster whose childhood is being invaded who is the victim...
...Winter, a popular and respected former Governor. A low-key but courageous progressive on racial issues, Winter, 61, became a populist hero by pushing through a sweeping 1982 education reform and tax bill that, among other things, makes it mandatory beginning in 1986 for local school districts to offer kindergarten classes. After completing one term as Governor and being barred by law from succeeding himself, Winter was the obvious choice to assert the Democratic Party's claim to pre-eminence in the progressive New South...
...Yale graduate from a wealthy family, Ashe, 39, resurrected his kindergarten nickname, "Bulldog," for the race. He certainly is tenacious. A little-known and less liked 19-year veteran in the state legislature (he was voted one of the 20 "worst" legislators last April), Ashe lobbied ferociously for the Republican nomination. In an unusual step, the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee settled upon Ashe before the primary to avoid a costly, divisive race. One piqued G.O.P. hopeful, Ed McAteer, 57, a former Colgate-Palmolive executive, is running as an independent. The archconservative founder of the Religious Roundtable, an evangelical political group...