“It’s time to do something different. We need to reshape the primary years and re-envision the elementary school. The K-5 model starts too late and is usually disconnected from early care and education providers such as pre-K centers. Instead, primary education should start at age 3, and each year of a young child’s life should be marked by teachers who work together, grade by grade, to offer age-appropriate and research-based learning experiences up through third grade.”

“First day of kindergarten: A key transition,” by Laura Bornfreund, deputy director of the early education initiative at the think tank New America, and Lisa Guernsey, director of the early education initiative and the Learning Technologies Project at New America, in an opinion piece on CNN’s website, September 8, 2015