It is not that homeschoolers haven’t known the importance of play for decades, or that we need research to tell us what we already know, but still, this press release caught my eye.
Early Childhood Experts to Brief Congress On Disappearance of Play and Playful Learning
Defenders of child-initiated play argue that learning, creativity, and democracy itself are threatened by narrow focus on academics and testing
College Park, MD, May 22, 2009—Crisis in the Kindergarten, the new study of how play is disappearing from early education because of increasingly intense academics and testing, will be the subject of a Washington briefing for Congress members and staff on Thursday, May 28 at the Capitol Visitors Center
