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...scores. In some areas close to 70% of students met or exceeded state standards last year; on the eighth-grade math exam, none did. In April, Kristen Jordison of the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools made a routine visit to Paramount Academy on a day when all but kindergarten classes were suspended for testing. On the basis of that visit, Jordison said the school "seemed to be doing what they need to do." During a visit by TIME, however, a group of students had locked several boys inside the girls' bathroom. The crowd of students summoned to the principal...
...recent federal study on children in day care has added to our guilty burden, purporting to show a link between day care and aggression in kids in kindergarten. But beyond the headlines, researchers have pointed out that the rise in aggression is actually quite small, that it seems to peak and recede depending on the age of the child, and that the possible reasons for the day care-aggression link are as yet unstudied...
...links their pay to student performance. Unlike many guideline-laden public schools, Accelerated gives its teachers near-total control over instructional methods and a real voice in running the place. "For the first time in 19 years of teaching, my experience and my opinion make a difference," says kindergarten and first-grade teacher Faynessa Armand...
...more hours children spend away from their mothers, researchers concluded, the more likely they are to be defiant, aggressive and disobedient by the time they get to kindergarten. Kids who are in child care more than 30 hours a week "scored higher on items like 'gets in lots of fights,' 'cruelty,' 'explosive behavior,' as well as 'talking too much,' 'argues a lot' and 'demands a lot of attention,'" said principal researcher Jay Belsky. It didn't matter if the children were black or white, rich or poor, male or female, and--most confounding--whether the care was provided...
...children grow secure in the knowledge that you will forgive them for whatever they break or spill or forget, if they learn to share because you are sharing, if they don't have to fight for your attention, those skills may serve them better in the adventure that is kindergarten than being able to distinguish the octagon from the hexagon or fuchsia from lilac. The best news about raising a super child is that the secret to doing it is not to try too hard...