By Steve Sailer
04/15/2013
Kevin Drum writes in Mother Jones a bit of boilerplate Conventional Wisdom, subversively self-parodied, however, by the caption for the photo demonstrating effective early childhood education:
Day Care, the Final Frontier
— By Kevin Drum| Mon Apr. 15, 2013 12:13 PM PDTIn 2011, Jon Cohn wrote a story called "The Two Year Window," about new research demonstrating the importance of the first two years of a child’s life. Roughly speaking, most child care that’s average or better is probably OK. But down in the bottom third, conditions are often bad enough to cause permanent cognitive damage, sometimes at a biological level. One third is a lot of kids.
Appropriately, two years later Cohn is back with a follow-up, "The Hell of American Day Care." Children who get proper attention and interaction, he says, "tend to develop the skills they need to thrive as adults — like learning how to calm down after a setback or how to focus on a problem long enough to solve it":
The caption in Mother Jones reads, "Unfortunately, this is the exception in America, not the rule."
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