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Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School
New research shows that many kindergartens spend 2 to 3 hours per day instructing and testing children in literacy and math-with only 30 minutes per day or less for play. In some kindergartens there is no playtime at all. The same didactic, test-driven approach is entering preschools. But these methods, which are not well grounded in research, are not yielding long-term gains. Meanwhile, behavioral problems and preschool expulsion, especially for boys, are soaring. Read the Alliance's new report, Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School at http://www.communityplaythings.com/resources/articles/valueofplay/Kindergarten_8-page_summary.pdf
Source: Bulletin of the World Association of Early Childhood Educators (WAECE), No. 413, May 22, 2009
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