BBC NEWS | Education | Pre-school 'gives maths boost'
It maybe due to the way this news report has been written that the research appears to state, or more accurately restate, the obvious. The findings reported were once the stock in trade of debates on pre-schooling in the US and the UK in the sixties. A principal difference between now and then is that pre-school was less likely in the sixties to be legitimated in terms of maths test scores at the age of ten. Furthermore, what was happening in China then was of little interest to UK educationalists.. BBC NEWS | Education | Pre-school 'gives maths boost'
posted by Kevin J. Brehony at
11:34 pm
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It does remind me of the back-to-basics movement in the USA in the 1980s, though, with the great attention (and awe) it afforded to the math scores of Japanese children. It included a big push for academic learning in the kindergarten.
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