Posts Tagged ‘ Preschool ’

In Defense of Childhood

While not specifically about homeschooling, an article by Brian Gresko, a stay-at-home dad and writer, explains his view that childhood is under attack by the very people who should be protecting it: parents. His article In Defense of Childhood: Let Kids Be Kids! explains: Many of the most important skills are untestable — imagination,...
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What Educational Studies don’t say…

Not so fast: Home schooling trumps full-day kindergarten Jun. 18, 2009 The Globe and Mail Amira Elghawaby Research shows home-schooled kids outperform their public-school peers. So why so is there little or no financial encouragement for parents to take it on? Seated beside a mom with coiffed hair, polished nails and an elegant suit,...
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Wall Street Journal addresses preschooling

Hat tip to for the link to Diane Flynn Keith of UniversalPreschool.com Protect Our Kids from Preschool, 22 August 2008, The Wall Street Journal Our understanding of the effects of preschool is still very much in its infancy. But one inescapable conclusion from the existing research is that it is not for everyone. Kids...
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The lifelong-education industry

‘While looking for something else’ I found an article about what used to be pre…schools (and that earlier were known as ‘nursery schools’) and are now called “preK.”  I think the change in wording from “pre-school” to ”pre-K” is significant, but I will leave that point alone this time, as I will the point about education as an industry. Campaign...
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Wishing for 3 year olds

In Illinois, Kwame Raoul, Presidential candidate Senator Obama’s replacement as State Senator, has once again introduced a bill to lower the compulsory attendance age. Even as there is some controversy in Illinois as to whether this is a homeschooling issue to contend with, Senator Raoul’s bill to lower the compulsory attendance age 2 years...
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Push for Preschool in Virginia

The push for more preschool continues in Virginia. Despite Virginia’s recently being named the state where a child has the best chance for success in life, those in political and education ranks used the publicity to lament the Commonwealth’s low score on preschool enrollment. “It’s a timely reminder that we must ensure that more...
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Pre-K is (said to be) gaining favor

The article I read over my oatmeal this morning was titled, “Pre-K is gaining favor.” The headline (above the fold in the “Local” section, and in large, all-caps font) really took the shine off my brown-sugared breakfast. As is usual with writing short missives (150-word limit for our paper), which of course I did,...
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Preschool-at-home

Stateline.org, Pew Charitable Trusts, 16 November 2005, Preschool gets record boost in ’05 At least 180,000 more children have access to preschool this year after lawmakers in 26 states boosted pre-K funding by $600 million during 2005 legislative sessions, the largest single-year increase for preschools in five years, according to a report issued Nov....
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