"More Dubious Pre-K Science" - Greg Abbott's Townhall 254

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"More Dubious Pre-K Science"

Started by MC Lambeth

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2014/04/02-dubious-prek-science-whitehurst

“We need strong research to guide early childhood policy, and we should not to be hobbled by consensus views that are built on a mountain of empirical mush. What we don’t know in this area will hurt us, and there is a huge amount we don’t know.”

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Julie Jumes, 10 years ago

Who wants to take money from parents with a “gold standard prek” in the home to give to government to try to create an alternative? Why not try to make K-12 the “efficient system of public free schools” specified by the state constitution before handing over more of a family’s budget to government control? Isn’t it further solidifying from an earlier age the one thing we are teaching children well: “You can not self govern. You must look to the government, not parents, for what and how to learn and the means to do it?”

Julie Jumes, 10 years ago

Did Pearson coin the term “Pre K Class” for our 2, 3 and 4 year old CHILDREN?

Denise Quiros Nobs, 10 years ago

not all homes are gold standard – even those with high incomes. I know many a family that are two income earners, driven to their ideas of success yet can’t seem to find the time to read a bedtime story, take a walk to a pond and look at the frogs and ducks or even play a game of catch in the front yard. Self governance is a great aspiration; looking to the government to take the place of good parenting is a dismal alternative.

Julie Jumes, 10 years ago

“looking to the government to take the place of good parenting is a dismal alternative.” I strongly agree and taking larger and larger sums of money for the definition and accountability from parents who do a better job, is flat out wrong, not something I would have expected from AG Abbott. We once left remedial parenting to churches and communities. Now it is a state job?

Isn’t the ACA the Fed’s defined “Gold Standard Health Care?” Is it just a matter of time before the state takes money to define and hold accountable for “Gold Standard In Utero” and helps educate folks on ways to “eliminate the achievement gap between African & Hispanic Americans and Whites & Asians” (Michael Williams #1 Goal for TX Ed)?