• 7:52 - 11:02
Kerry McDonald | The Unschooling Movement & The Many Pitfalls Of Conventional Education
Academic Pressure, Kindergarten Reading Benchmarks and ADHD
The conversation examines how academic expectations have shifted to much younger ages over the last generation. Research from the University of Virginia indicates that while only 30% of teachers expected kindergartners to read in 1998, that number rose to 80% by 2010 following No Child Left Behind. McDonald argues that skyrocketing rates of ADHD diagnoses are often the result of placing young children in developmentally inappropriate academic environments.