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If you teach your kid to read early you shift your kid's performance curve earlier than everyone else's kids so of course it corresponds to "better outcomes."
by dsfyu404ed 8y ago
If you teach your kid to read early you shift your kid's performance curve earlier than everyone else's kids so of course it corresponds to "better outcomes."
There's a huge amount of positive feedback loops involved in education so if you can give your kid an start that gives them a tiny leg up on their peers it's likely that they will carry that lead all the way through to adulthood.
It's the same arms race we see in athletics. Kids that start school a year later (and are bigger) have better athletics outcomes.
Few people really are naturally exceptional at anything. However, if you've managed to shift your kid's performance curve so they look "gifted" compared to the other kids then your kid gets the best the education system has to offer and this investment of resources compounds in a way that gives them better opportunities which at scale correlates a lot with better outcomes.
Basically parents that have the time/resources/will to game the system in favor of their kids have kids that out-compete the kids of parents who don't. Water is wet. More news at 11.
- noneeeed 8y agoNot negating what you wrote, but I think the parent comment was referring more to reading "to" children being a good thing in an of itself. I believe there are a number of theorised factors: encouraging an interest in books before the child is actually able to read them (and so being an encouragement to learn), giving them exposure to stories and ideas and pumping their imagination, and providing a focus for quality parent/child time especially as part of a daily routine. My 4y/o is learning to read at the moment, and the difference between the early reader phonics books he gets from school and the stuff I read to him at home at the moment is night and day in terms of story and interest. There's a real market for some really good authors to produce better phonics books.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoThe school selects for what a teacher can teach to a class of 20+ students. You select for different criteria.
- throwaway123032 8y agoI am amazed to not have found in English anything like what we have in France. Typically books like that (book sample ) http://www.calameo.com/read/0000158561975d1f69db8?authid=znsAo8Al42Cd http://www.calameo.com/read/0000158561975d1f69db8?authid=zns...