“When I knocked at the door,” recalls Carlos Rivera, 36, who supervises elementary Spanish in the El Paso public schools, “I repeated several times, ‘Pase usted,’ but I did not enter.” The door led to ...

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There is a newly published study out of the University of Virginia titled, “Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?” (based on a 2014 working paper), which finds, not surprisingly, that it is. This work ...