When the supermarket becomes a classroom: Building learning communities beyond the school walls

By Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff. Only 20 percent of a child’s waking time is spent in school. That means that even with the best schools, the best teachers and the best educational policy, schools cannot close the achievement gap. To be sure, mountains of research demonstrate the significance of early schooling in changing learning trajectories for young children. More...