Because Indiana still doesn’t fund early childhood education, many students will start school in the fall having never set foot in a classroom. Without preschool, the transition to a full day of classes can be challenging for students who aren’t prepared for kindergarten academics.
With such high stakes on statewide tests, some Indiana schools have decided to test students more formally, hoping results can offer clues into which kids need extra instruction.
There are, of course, children who were not yet born or are too young to remember when planes struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — a generation for whom September 11th is not a memory. So how should schools teach about that day in school, especially when the teachers did experience that day? [...]
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