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Early formal schooling 'damages development'
By Simon Vevers,
Nursery World,
27 November 2007
Formal education for four- and-five-year-olds may seem to show promising results when tested early but proves damaging to children's educational development in the long term, says an international early years expert.
Professor Lillian Katz, from Illinois University in the United States, delivered her warning about the perils of beginning formal instruction too early at a conference at Oxford University last week which looked at the Early Years Foundation Stage from a world perspective. She welcomed the EYFS as 'a step in the right direction' but warned that it should focus more on children's intellectual development rather than academic skills, as children need to learn to...
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