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Too much too early in the UK?

Posted by Richard Lee Colvin on February 8, 2008 9:18 AM

The Daily Telegraph of London reports on a Cambridge University review of primary education that found schooling there too stressful, rigid, and oriented toward "performativity." English kids start school at age 4. The study found too much emphasis on testing young children.

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