The disturbing shift underway in early childhood classrooms:

The disturbing shift underway in early childhood classrooms

By Valerie Strauss, Published: August 2 at 4:00 amE-mail the writer

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Increasingly we hear that academic work, including test prep, is reaching down into the lowest grades, even preschool. Here’s a post with teacher concerns on the issue, written by Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, and Diane E. Levin. They run the nonprofit called Defending the Early Years, which seeks to rally educators to take action on policies that affect the education of young children. DEY is a non-profit project of the Survival Education Fund, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational organization based in Watertown, Massachusetts. You can read more stories from teachers at the DEY website, on the “Voices from the Field” page.

By Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, and Diane E. Levin

“We spend the majority of the day testing one way or another.”  — A second grade public school teacher from North Carolina

A disturbing shift is underway