Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.
At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.
I was born on a council estate with a mum who, despite doing everything she could for me, couldn't help me learn to read and write because she had never been taught herself. As the jargon would have it now, I was not 'school ready.'
We know that school readiness programs work, and the best ones work extraordinarily well. They are effective in reducing the achievement gap, which in Connecticut is among the highest in the country.
Having a larger vocabulary the day you walk into kindergarten is advantageous.
Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.
I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.
When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition.
I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.
It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.
One of the reasons I am running for Governor is to make sure that every child in Arkansas has a chance to go to kindergarten.
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
No child should be expelled from preschool. And so we are calling on school districts around the country to end that practice. That benefits every child.
Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.
When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.
The social and educational value of preschool is undisputed.
When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
Getting into a sleep routine before the first week of school will aid in easing the shock of waking up early.
There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.
I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on.
