Editorial: Pre-K program is doing what it should

Date: Nov 10, 2009
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel, Knoxville, TN

Nevertheless, getting the pre-K students ready for kindergarten and first grade, it would seem, satisfies a major objective of the program, and that is what the report found. The program was not designed to create super students who would show up their peers for the next dozen years but to put disadvantaged students on a par with those who were tutored at home or attended private preschool programs.

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