CCSD: Full-Day K For Non-At-Risk Disappears In Two Years
February 6th, 2007Today’s Las Vegas Review Journal reports a press release from the Clark County School District that appears to show no benefits for non-at-risk children from full-day kindergarten once those kids hit second grade. Here it is…
Highlights:
- The study is of participants in pilot-project full-day kindergarten in Clark County who have reached the second grade, and is based on a measurement of reading skill.
- For all students, reading performance improved 3.1%.
- For at-risk students, reading performance improved 8%.
A sharp correspondent emailed me this morning pointing out that if these two statements are true, then non-at-risk students had close to zero performance improvement. Their score - averaged with at-risk children’s 8% improvement - dropped the overall average to 3%.
February 7th, 2007 at 9:34 am
I can agree with chuck Muth. IMHO: Reducing the role of Public Schools in the family and their children can help promote freedom, free competition, the family’s involvement in the city and state govt and justice.
March 1st, 2007 at 8:29 pm
[...] Here’s what I posted on February 6 when the story initially appeared in the press. [...]
November 13th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
If Full Day K is enacted you can bet your bottom dollar that it will be swamped with the children of Illegal Aliens and with the children of families looking to forego Day Care expenses.
Our children are the responsibility of their parents not our school system. If we divest the parents of all responsibility for their children you can bet your life that increased gang activity and such woes will result…Just wait 5 or 6 years after Full Day K is enacted…BET ON IT!