Yet another group of surprised experts.
Government subsidized babysitting
Perhaps 5-year olds need loving patents, not government programmers.
It’s mostly because “Childhood Ed” programs are developed by the same kind of people who work for the Brookings Institution.
Ed not working...
Are they doing any teaching?
Are they teaching something learnable by children that age?
Could be that a young child needs 1-on-1 to avoid assuming that the “teacher” is talking to someone else in the room. Children tune out easily.
My hypothesis is that as the nuclear American family continues its decline there is a commensurate decline in the effectiveness of early childhood education. Moreover, there is significant empirical date covering decades that shows Head Start programs help slightly early in a child’s life, but then all children are at parity by the third grade.
Maybe because the first 3 or 4 years are nurturing years....not preparation for SATs.
If a child has parents who have no interest in sitting down with it and teaching it to use crayons, scissors, paper and pencil, or take the time to feed it, there is a lot more wrong here than any program can fix.
Instead the objective must be to discourage the parents from having more of these unfortunate children. Policies that reward making babies to increase benefits must end.
Adding to that, the authors claimed that this one study cannot debunk the multiple other studies conducted on the issue. They said, “if we average across high-quality studies from the past…we find evidence that preschool produces ‘substantial benefits’ for children.”
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This is data cherry-picking. There are ‘substantial benefits’ for children” but they totally fade out by fourth grade.
Have these kids been getting Michelle Obama’s school lunches? If so, case closed.
And perhaps time to throw the education theories and teacher training created by John Dewey away and go back to pre-Dewey principles. Even the Soviets discarded his ideas as useless for producing an educated population a dozen or so years after they adopted them.
See: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/12/k12_occupied_territory.html
LET THEM PLAY!
And it doesn't matter how much money the government spends on "education".
One vulnerability of all these programs is how government hires the staff. If the hired staff are themselves functionally illiterate, how can they be expected to do anything useful for the kids?
What could go wrong.
Force young Children to sit still indoors.
Force them to listen to indoctrination.
Force them to go hungry with Moochelle approved food.
Force little boys on psychotropic drugs because they can’t sit still.
Folks involved with education will tell you children aren’t ready for formal education at the ages they are trying to instill it in them. Of course even some of them have been brainwashed for political reasons, to support it.
Boys in particular are not wired to sit still and focus until about a year later than girls. Girls generally start out ahead and the boys catch up quickly.
What we all know is that this is about re-education, a word that shouldn’t be used with children, but the powers that be today can’t wait to instill their biases in children.
What’s this early education all about?
The experts know that children form many beliefs and concepts at a early age. The earlier the educators can interrupt the parents instilling their values in the children, the better little Leftist trolls they’ll be able to turn out to be.
Mommy and daddy are two different sexes. Children shouldn’t buy into that concept should they? You and I say yes. The education trolls say no. Get to them early and explain why not. UG!
Kids develop an adverse opinion of education because it is forced on them too early. Who could have seen that coming?
Rob Reiner perhaps?
Head Start has always been popular however (it's for the chirren after all), provides meals and vaccination opportunities and such, and serves as a jobs program for otherwise unemployable inner city women-- paid to babysit their own children, basically.
These may be worthwhile by-products but are sure not worth $9000 per kid.
My ex was working Head Start when I met her. The poor kids that she was working with do not stand a chance. They are rarely even talked to, let alone nurtured. The children would be better off in an orphanage. Good argument for sterilization too.
Libs think they can educate everybody out of poverty. There will always be people that are too simple minded and will barely know how to do the basics, certainly they will never learn a trade.