EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning

Pipeline to Harvard a Myth!?

My call for stories in which sources claim that getting into the "right" pre-school or kindergarten is an express ride directly to 1. The Ivy League. 2. Science Careers 3. To Become Doctors. prompted Hechinger Institute Assistant Director Liz Willen to send me a story she did last spring for Bloomberg News. The story had the obligatory only-somewhat-tongue-in-cheek quote about the pre-K-Harvard link. But it also had this perspective quote from William Fitzsimmons, Harvard's admission director: ``You have students who are home schooled, students who have gone to any kind of school you could imagine and even students who have spent no time at all in their lives in a formal classroom who end up getting into Harvard,'' Fitzsimmons said.

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