third grade

[marswalker]

I just read this. It's worth sharing. And it's why we can't be stingy where it comes to public education- and why we need to be more wise about how and where the money is spent (quite frankly, why does the administration have 1.5 to 3x the salaries of the educators?) Any way, seems to me that based on this, we should be putting just a little extra emphasis on early / grade school and on programs educating parents how-to prime their kids for learning.

http://ideas.time.com/2012/09/26/why-third-grade-is-so-important-the-matthew-effect/

Time to call Roger and run off to hiking!