Jan

26

KRNV TV Reno News Report on All-Day K

Filed Under Joe Enge | 

Proponents Advance to the Rear
Reporter Hetty Chang aired a report on all-day kindergarten interviewing Superintendent Paul Dugan and me on the issue. Proponents for the $186 million program will have to do better than saying, “Opponents haven’t visited the kindergarten classes.” We have visited, attended, and even graduated (some may contend otherwise) kindergarten classes.

Call me wild, call me crazy, but an effective way to convince Nevadans would be to trot out all the evidence beyond the “all studies show” mantra. Instead, we only hear the sound of silence (Simon & Garfunkel 1965). The need to fall back on the subjective and anecdotal is admission that objective research for All-day K is missing in action and signals a strategic retreat (advance to the rear) equal to Napoleon’s out of Russia in 1812. Perhaps taxpayers will be more forgiving than the Russian winter.

You can view Hetty’s report by clicking here.

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  1. Bob Frenchu on January 28, 2007 8:51 am

    This says it all right here……..

    ” Despite class-size reduction, increased per pupil spending, and pretended accountability with the likes of the “high stakes” but low level competency tests to graduate, too many students are graduating our high schools and going to college needing to take remedial classes in English and mathematics. Do you think gas pedaling the hapless 5-year-olds will help the situation? ”

    Let’s call all-day kindergarten what it is- babysitting- and pursue ways to make our education dollar work better in the upper grades, where they need it most.

    Thanks for your newsletter. I wish they printed it in the newspaper.

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