KINDERGARTEN PREP: the academic push -- how early is too early?
by Ilene Lelchuk
The academic push now starts before kindergarten. Parents worried about the rigors of elementary school enroll their tots in tutoring programs and academic preschools or sit them in front of videos that promise to teach children as young as 15 months their ABC basics in a few short weeks. Yet other parents and early-education experts wonder whether children are being pushed too hard, too soon.
San Francisco Chronicle, 10/4/2006