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News -12-08-05 Trend: Full-Day Kindergarten (CBS News) "It's a working parent's dream - kindergartens competing to take your children off your hands all day, and the promise that they'll learn something, too." " 12-05 -12-08-05 Trend: Kindergarten Much Harder (CBS News) "Across the country, the accountability movement in education and near obsession with academic excellence is filtering down to the level of the jungle gym and nap-time rug. School districts are pushing students to new levels as a growing body of research indicates the importance of early learning and the demands of a competitive world close in on the American classroom." "To many, the emphasis on academic performance at very young ages is a positive trend that will boost the nation's educational system. But others worry it ratchets up the academic arms race and places too much responsibility on the backs of America's youngest students, at a time when many still put their coats on inside out." "The Duke University pilot program is as much about teaching the capability of learning as it is the nuts-and-bolts of subjects. The idea is to get kids to follow their curiosity toward real knowledge. 'One of our problems nationally ... is that we don't have high expectations for our children,' says Margaret Gayle of the American Association of Gifted Children in Durham, N.C. 'This curriculum is immersing them in essential questions, high concepts, outstanding vocabulary, and also intelligent behavior and habits of mind.' " 12-05

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