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...that each of the six national education goals President Bush set in 1990 for the year 2000 will go unmet. Still, there was some noticeable improvement from kids at the youngest age. As it turns out, throwing money at the problem of fulfilling Bush's goal that kids enter kindergarten ready to learn really did work. Even as the level of federal funding devoted to public education stagnated during the past decade, the amount invested in early childhood education boomed. Head Start's budget alone grew nearly tenfold. Further, most states raised qualification levels for day care practitioners, and more...
...adds that the question of the University subsidizing daycare arises from time to time, and she hopes that steps will be taken in the future. Doherty is acutely aware of the burden of childcare - her third child just entered kindergarten...
...KINDERGARTEN BURDENS...
...found your article on the accelerated rate of teaching reading and math in kindergarten very interesting [EDUCATION, Nov. 8]. I am a parent of a six-year-old kindergartner who has been "redshirted," or held back from starting first grade. I did not make this decision based on theories like that of the early-education consultant who claims that kids need "more time in the classroom." Quite the contrary. I felt that what our young son needed most was more time to play. If what he has ahead of him in later grades is the kind of education tedium that...
...celebrate Thanksgiving, TIME, for the third consecutive year, has asked the nation's most powerful citizens to trace their hands and draw turkeys, as they did in kindergarten. And once again, a surprising number complied...