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The Case for the New Kindergarten: Challenging and Playful By Daphna Bassok, Amy Claessens, and Mimi Engel
The Case for the New Kindergarten: Challenging and Playful
- Ed Week
Kindergarten in the United States is not what it used to be. For one thing, it's longer. In 1998, only about 56 percent of children attended full-day kindergarten. Today, that figure is 80 percent,according to our research.
Kindergarten classrooms are also far more academically oriented. Our research shows that most kindergarten teachers now think academic instruction should begin in preschool and indicate that it's important for incoming kindergartners to already know their letters and numbers. Today's kindergarten teachers are spending much more time on literacy and expect their students to learn to read before 1st grade. The implications of these changes are not clear.
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