Ben Mardell on Early Childhood Education

"Four year olds are citizens, not potential citizens, not citizens in training, but citizens, with rights and obligations like all citizens," Ben Mardell and his co-authors write in a 2010 paper called, – "The Rights of Children: Policies to Best Serve Three, Four and Five Year Olds in Public Schools." http://opus.ipfw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=spe

"Children must be recognized not just as growing unfinished beings," the report says, "but also as true thinkers and doers, as active participants in their education".

by Alyssa Haywoode

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