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Re:Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between appl... by kekpopzed on Saturday February 08, 2025 @10:47AM (#42983696)
This article says more research is necessary and I cannot read their methods so it is a bit disinegous to cite this as some kind of proof. Especially when the article says early education programs vary in content. Tennessee has one of the worst school systems in the US, #41:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/public-scho...

And in terms of content, Tennessee bans the teaching of slavery, so I’d be suspicious of any study related to education done there:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2021/10/05/how-tenn...

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Re:Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between appl... by SamPatt on Saturday February 08, 2025 @11:01AM (#42983808)
Tennessee was the most stark example, but not the only one. And the fact that education is often sub-standard isn't a good case for more of it.

The point: it isn't blindly obvious that devoting even more of our children's lives to an education institution is necessarily best for them, in all cases.

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