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#40. Long-Term Harm of Early Academic Training
Research reveals academic training in pre-K and K has long-term damaging effects on children's social, emotional, intellectual, and academic…
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#39. The Cruelty of U.S. Kindergarten Practices
Since Common Core, kindergarten teachers have been forced to treat little children in ways they know are wrong.
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Responses to school lunch-time survey and question about Common Core
Dear friends, A total of 51 people commented on the thread I posted April 19, where I asked about the length of lunch period when you or your ki…
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Survey Question: How long was lunch break when you or your kids were in elementary school?
Dear friends, In my most recent letter (#38), I summarized evidence from both informal observations and published research that lunch period in …
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#38. What Happened to School Lunch Hour?
We’ve mandated nutritious school lunches, but we don’t give kids time to eat them.
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Reminiscing About Recess: Can we construct a timeline showing decline of recess freedom?
Friends, in Letter #37, I wrote about the bizarre rules that some schools today place on what elementary school children are allowed or not allowed to…
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#37. How Schools Ruin Recess
Hey, have fun kids, if you can figure out what you might be allowed to do.
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Roles of Play and Humor in Romantic Attraction
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