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Play Is Disappearing From Kindergarten. It’s Hurting Kids.

Edsurge

Across the country, kindergarteners are pressured to meet academic standards that both teachers and experts say many kids are developmentally not ready for. The same analysis found kindergarten teachers were about 15 percent more likely to use math and reading workbooks at the end of the decade.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

” A Hechinger Report analysis found that such lofty goals were common in the 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, particularly between 2008 and 2013, when dozens of new charter schools opened across the city. Ken Campbell, director of charter schools for the Louisiana Department of Education between 2007 and early 2010.