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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It never had an edge.  They need to get back to basics.[/quote]
It did in the 60s and 70s.  [/quote]

Homogeneous population.[/quote]

Yes. The article could have had more discussion of this context. The FARMS rates have risen dramatically over the years.[/quote]

Yes +1. I am a teacher and I also have had two kids graduate. Look, we have gone from a district where the majority of kids had college-educated, professional parents, to one that still has many of those parents but also many low-income, new immigrant parents. Some kids arrive in kindergarten reading chapter books because their parents have been teaching them since birth, and some kids arrive not even knowing their name because they’ve been taken care of by siblings and had no exposure to English. Of course these kids don’t “achieve” at the same rate.[/quote]

Some of this also has to do with the push for play based preschool.  We started in a play based preschool and I was volunteering that day and they were testing the older kids on the playground of their basics and I was shocked at how little some of these kids knew.  The next year we switched ours out to an academic preschool and they went into school with a much better foundation.  Plus we worked at home with them.[/quote]

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