Kindergarteners - C'mon Kids, Get with the Program
Latest articles about kindergarten. Washington Post's Answer Sheet - A Very Scary Headline about Kindergarten Washington Post's Answer Sheet - Report Debunks "Earlier is Better" Academic Instruction for Young Children Boston Globe - Is the Common Core Killing Kindergarten? “When we require specific skills to be learned by every child at the same time, that misses a basic idea in early childhood education,” she says, “which is that there’s a wide range to learning everything in the early years.” Given the wide developmental variation in young learners and the evidence that early reader advantages fade, the report concludes that a kindergarten literacy standard will simply crush the spirits of the late bloomers, linking school with “feelings of inadequacy, anxiety, and confusion.” Follow-Up on WaKIDS assessment story I asked the district about the WaKIDS issue where half of the incoming kindergarteners don't start school on September 9th but o...