Missouri Education Watchdog: Here's a Brilliant Educational Reform Idea. (Not Really).
Missouri Education Watchdog: Here's a Brilliant Educational Reform Idea. (Not Really).:
by stlgretchen
Many states, including Missouri, has toyed with the idea of lowering the age of compulsory schooling to age 3. That's one way to ensure the implementation of universal pre-school. Educated Citizenry 2020 lists this as one of the long term educational goals for our state and follows Arne Duncan's long term vision includes the importance of early childhood learning and expansion of services. Access to college and higher education has been a hot button issue of late as well. The Obama administration believes not only early childhood learning is important, so is higher education learning.
