The Review Journal’s editorial page saw right through it, but the Clark County School District offered some interesting responses to my press release that their published study results had neglected to include the very clear finding that full-day kindergarten hurt the 2nd grade performance of non “FRL” students, compared to students who did not go […]

In response to a legislative inquiry and pressure from my blog, the Clark County School District confirmed that their internal study on the effectiveness of full day kindergarten has shown that full day kindergarten damages the academic performance of children from middle and upper class homes.
Children from middle and upper class homes (defined as children […]

Last week, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported that the Clark County School District has “proven” the effectiveness of all day kindergarten with a “longitudinal” study that found reading aptitude was 3% higher amongst children who attended FDK. If they took out the results of the non “at-risk” children, and just […]

Doctors vow to first, do no harm. Should we make the apologists who are pushing full-day kindergarten to “fix” education take the same vow?

The Rand Corporation is America’s preeminent non partisan Independent think tank. Recently they released a study of all day kindergarten.

Today’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 […]