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Norway law decrees: Let childhood be childhood

The Hechinger Report

Just past the rusty roof of the building across the road, we could see the top of Regjeringskvartalet, a cluster of government offices, the target of that car bomb. The government’s view isn’t that child care is a place to put children so parents can work, or even to prepare children for the rigors of elementary school.

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. The same goes for middle and high school options.