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Download full textAnderson, Scarvia B. – 1968
Educators have rationalized the traditional school starting age of 6 by saying that children have by then normally acquired sufficient muscular control and language ability to begin reading instruction. When it became apparent that many children did not begin to read at the supposedly proper time, further rationalizations developed concerning…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Child Development, Child Development Specialists, Educational Policy
