First the singing and praising now ....
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How bout more time in a book and less time on a stage/quote]
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While I think our school aged kids are behind some other nations in class room time, and I guess overall math and science skills, I'm not sure more time is the answer. Kids can only concentrate so long and it all becomes white noise.
I'm not a professional educator but I think what is important is better environments (vis a vis the Chicago school killing in the news) improved teaching methods (stop just teaching them how to pass TAS tests and nothing else) and more involvement at home.