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Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney told The Boston Globe last week that he would sponsor a plan to help resolve the considerable disparities that are present in the state’s public education system. And while the manner in which Romney is pressing the issue is severely flawed the initiative itself is uncharacteristically promising. A key part of the governor’s nascent proposal is the implementation of full-day kindergarten in under-performing school districts, where most students currently only attend school for half...
...Romney seems to recognize on a rudimentary level, giving students more attention is a much more valuable if it is paired with parental attention to children’s learning at home. Children whose parents read to them, help teach them to read and encourage them to get the most out of school undoubtedly end up more committed to learning—and better...
...plan, children would be excluded from the new all-day kindergartens if their parents were unwilling—or more likely, unable—to attend two days of parenting-skill training. This idea’s degeneracy is made clear by observations almost too simple to escape even Romney himself, namely that parents who live in under-performing school districts often can’t afford to sacrifice two days’ worth of wages and that compulsory presence at parenting school smacks of a remedial program targeted toward low-income parents for no other palpable reason than their...
Massachusetts has much to gain by providing full-day kindergarten to students in under-performing districts and little to lose aside from copious tax cuts it cannot afford. Governor Romney deserves support in his initiative, but it is critical that he pursue parent involvement through the channels of motivation, not compulsion. Romney already recognizes that a good education necessitates extra attention at home and extra attention at school; he should eliminate from his plan the barriers to both...
...fact, Romney suggested that his family name did play a role in the successs of his 2002 campaign...