Today’s article from Intellectual Takeout Dale Farran spent a decade studying over 1,000 kids who went to a state-run pre-kindergarten—and a control group of kids that wanted to, but didn’t get in. She is shocked and dismayed by what she discovered: By 6th grade the pre-K kids were doing worse all around: worse reading, math and science scores; more learning disorders; and more discipline problems, including serious ones that got them suspended. “It really has required a lot of soul-searching,” Farran told Anya Kamenetz on NPR. Now she’s pondering “what were plausible reasons that may account for this.” One theory she has is that the free pre-K doesn’t look like pricey … [Read more...]
Two Starkly Different Visions For K-12 Education Funding
This is an article from TheLens (By TJ Martinell) They lay out two proposals that have just been introduced. They do a good job outlining the directions. What do you think? At a hearing of the Senate Ways and Means Committee Monday, January 30, lawmakers further staked out their ground in what will be protracted negotiations this session on K-12 education funding, as a new Senate Republican bill got a hearing. Also yesterday, a competing House Democratic bill was filed. Their visions are starkly different. Driving the action is a State Supreme Court ruling, in the McCleary case, mandating a shifting of more K-12 basic ed support to the state from local school … [Read more...]