For long-term success, preschool must be play-based, NOT academic. Sure, academic kids jump ahead of their play-based peers in the short term, but by fourth grade, those gains disappear, never to return.
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"If this study doesn’t put the nail in the coffin of academic training to little children, it’s hard to imagine what will."
Peter Gray on the first-ever controlled study of public, academically-oriented U.S. pre-K, where THE CONTROL GROUP DID BEST.
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Feb 1, 2022 · 10:12 AM UTC
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