Word: prekindergartens
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...question is, will the money make a real difference in children's lives? In a recent Op-Ed in the New York Times, Douglas Besharov of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute and a colleague argued that expanding prekindergarten programs "without demanding reforms will not help children." Other critics have also opined that funding early-childhood initiatives is just a sop to liberal interest groups...
...heat extends from President George W. Bush to McCain and all the way down to the mayor of Beardstown, where a decade of intense immigration has turned a nearly all-white town into a place in which 72% of the prekindergarten class is Hispanic. "If I got up and said I'm gonna run each and every Mexican out of town on a donkey, the voters here would cheer me on," says Mayor Bob Walters. "But I'm not going to say that. It's not our job to deport them all, and it's not the right thing...
Miller and other activists agree that seniors were crucial to getting a state-funded universal prekindergarten ballot measure passed in 2002 as well as a Children's Trust fund for Miami-Dade County, both of which raised the kind of pro-kid taxes that Florida retirees traditionally scorn. When the legislature last year crafted what many called an inadequate pre-K plan, thousands of elderly "condo commandos," like the Greater Aventura Citizens Association (GACA) in South Florida, deluged Tallahassee with phone calls and e-mails to help win changes like lower teacher-student ratios. At this spring's legislative session...
...There is no other grade in school with as much research done on it as prekindergarten," says Walter Gilliam of Yale's Child Study Center. "There's such compelling data that these programs have a positive, measurable impact...
...Rosemont Elementary School in Baltimore, college prep begins early. How early? Starting in prekindergarten, students take some of their lessons from tenured university faculty. Undergraduates serve as teachers' aides, and kids spend their summer vacations studying on the campus of a nearby college. When students graduate from the fifth grade, they get a handshake and a diploma from a university president. So it was understandable that when a visitor recently toured the school, a bespectacled third-grader asked, "Excuse me, Miss? Are you a professor...