Cincinnati.com – Denise Smith Amos
“For a generation, national education reforms designed to prepare more students for college have pushed first-grade classroom lessons into kindergarten and kindergarten lessons to preschool. Kids are now expected to learn numbers, colors and the beginnings of how to read before they start kindergarten. Preschool is the new kindergarten. It is not mandatory, though, and most parents who choose it have to pay for it.”(more)