Research indicates that the growing emphasis on academic rigor in grade school is ineffectual at best and counterproductive at worst. Several months ago, a pair of studies threw early education enthusiasts into disarray. The first compared the subsequent achievement of kids enrolled in an academic pre-k program to kids who were not (PDF). By first grade, the kids who’d […]
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