. File this under The Law of Unintended Consequences, or, more precisely, Force-feeding Young Children Academics Backfires. It comes from an article ershizdrie in the Washington Post by Nancy Carlsson-Paige, author of Taking Back Childhood: …The pressure to teach academic skills in pre-K and kindergarten has been increasing since the passage of the No Child […]
![Trying to Close the Achievement Gap, We Have Created a “Play Gap” Children being instructed in focus, balance, physics and joy.](https://www.freerangekids.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/children-playing-184x138.jpg)