Delivery of early reading skills is a Critical Gift. Without this Gift, all children are behind before they start kindergarten.
The Gift, Only an individual gift delivers early reading skills at age 2, 3, 4 and 5. This gift is the key to opportunity. It is society’s best (effective and lowest cost) approach to preparing the most at-risk to want opportunities, choices and engagement.
The Critical Early Reading Skills Gift Delivered to 100% of the children before starting kindergarten is a requirement that allows the public school to create the people to fill the new middle jobs. Thomas L Friedman in the 3.0 release of the World is Flat clearly starts the discussion (page 278) of the following jobs:
Collaborator…………………Adopter………………….Orchestrator
The Greens…………………..Synthesizers…………… Personalizers
Explainers…………….……..Leveragers………………..Math Lovers
Localizers……IQ’s, PQ’s and the CQ’s…Tuba players
Literacy is freedom and is the agenda of opportunity for the world. 100% community delivery allows the public school to act on the above verses recovery of those behind. The public schools wish every child’s synapses were wired with an early reading skill delivery at ages 3-6.
It is is interesting to think about the language synapses as hard wires in the brain. They naturally function as wires in the child's head because they are full of language content when they close; or they close on empty. If they close on empty the child has missed the sensitive period to learning language. This makes the child's life much more difficult and taxpayers, schools, cities and counties incur the higher cost and the failures of not doing first things first and not doing it right the first time. How many of us have heard that before.
Investors need to see the opportunity in these closings on empty. The closings on full have already been capitalized (edutainment) on. If you think you are effective you must reconcile that brain wiring discussion and know kids age 3-6 have no say in the process. When does this knowledge create the ethical question? Generally the public schools are strong, rewiring has made them so. Just think what they could do with 100% wired kids. Give your child or grandchild a gift of untouchable prosperity and attend to the 100%. Assume help is on the way, but you could say we face a quiet creeping crisis and
needed brain potential is being lost in the local fight to create the future high value USA jobs.
Tom Wolfgram 612-968-1579