Ahead of Their Class
A pilot project in New Mexico gives kindergartners— and some 1st graders—20 extra days before the school year begins to learn the ropes and jump into their lessons.
Las Cruces, N.M.
On top of a colorful classroom rug, Pattie Burnam places four basic shapes. Asking her pupils to close their eyes, she hides a cutout of a gingerbread man under the triangle.
She then calls on the children one by one, giving them a chance to guess where the figure is hiding. But first, they have to name it.
“No peeking—that’s what people do in preschool, and we’re not in preschool anymore,” Burnam tells her “grown-up kindergartners,”...
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