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Kindergarten: While American Kids Read, Their Finnish Peers Play
“The changes to kindergarten make me sick,” a veteran teacher in Arkansas recently admitted to me. “Think about what you did in first grade—that’s what my 5-year-old babies are expected to do.” The difference between first grade and kindergarten may not seem like much, but what I remember about my first-grade experience in the mid-90s doesn’t match the kindergarten she described in her email: three and a half hours of daily...
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Standardized tests for kindergartners makes me sick.
I totally agree. I hope we come to a point in our education system where we realize that we should be focusing on individual education instead of the standard.