/PRNewswire/ "Once-in-a-lifetime" financial crises have been accelerating. It took roughly 40 years from the Crash of 1929 to the Bear Market of 1968, but.
let me add, not only is integration no longer on the table, the policy agenda, which is remarkable when you consider the journey we have gone through since the brown decision, but head start and access to quality preschool is not even on the agenda. here is what we know. we don t have an achievement gap. we have a preparation gap. kids are coming into kindergarten well behind because they haven t had access to quality early childhood education. then, we shame them. we shame them and their parents. it is a sound policy investment. we have a lot of evidence to show this. to invest in the early childhood education of children, because it will benefit them not only in kindergarten but throughout their education. that s what made the chicago teachers so important. if you look at what they won, it wasn t just about salary. they won more money for those kind of programs, 600 more art teachers and physical education teachers and teachers unions that are so derided as part of the probl
better than 6-year-old kindergartners. why? because school makes kids smarter. the experience of being young in class makes kids work harder and as a result they learn more. the kids who are oldest in the class are already doing pretty well and they re not motivated to work as hard. there s so many moms and datdads who think this red shirting a sports term, but holding their kid back one year is going to let them mature a little bit. maybe be a little more confident when they head into kindergarten nap is a miscon jepgs you say that s hurting children. parents listening now are saying, should realize, they shouldn t hold their kid back? that s right. and the reason is because kids don t learn in a vacuum. people are social learners, and so kids will learn much better if they have older classmates with better social skills and better academic skills to look up to than they will when they re the only people in the class with their level of skill. let s broaden out the d