Published: January 15, 1997

Letters to the Editor

To the Editor:

When you reported that the National Association for the Education of Young Children earlier this year endorsed computer activities for children as young as age 3 or 4 ( "Software for Preschoolers Makes Market Inroads," Dec. 11, 1996), you told less than half the story.

Though many parents and educators have concluded that the NAEYC position is unrealistically sanguine, it must be admitted that the association's position was replete with caveats. I counted no fewer than 47 warnings in the NAEYC's position statement. It cautioned (among other warnings) that introducing computers into early-childhood education...