Advice To The Next President: K-12 Education And Early Childhood Development | Cognoscenti

Advice To The Next President: K-12 Education And Early Childhood Development | Cognoscenti

Great article! I found a few quotes from the article that really caught my eye. For instance " We should invest early during the time of greatest cognitive development."  I could'nt agree more, there's a window of oppurtunity and if you miss that window it only gets ahrder and harder to open with time. There are certain ages where children retain more information then other ages. The younger, the better, the more they can absorb at a younger age the more they will retain. Also " the federal government should not mandate a one size fits all education model." Every child learns differently and at their own pace, with their own strengths and weakness's.  In the article it talks about how President Obama needs to keep working closely with teachers, its the only way to improve school sytems. If our leaders don't know the needs and concerns for the classrooms how can we ever make it better?  It also mentioned in the article that unionized teachers scored better then nonunionized teachers...? Not sure why that is, but it could be because they have more resources and work closer with our government on what the needs are of our children. I also never knew that massachusets was #1 in the United States for best public school. I wouldnt have thought massachusets to be the best schools in the U.S. I wonder what they are doing that we're not? Overall great article, I agree with alot of things they were saying in here, and hope that our world in education keeps growing and creating new challenges everyday.