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Is Your First Grader College Ready?

"The age-old question is: ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ You always ask kids that," Ms. Rigo said. "We need to ask them, ‘How will you get there?’ Even if I am teaching preschool, the word ‘college’ has to be in there."

Forget meandering — the messaging now is about goals and focus. "It’s sort of like, if you want your kids to be in the Olympics or to have the chance to be in the Olympics," said Wendy Segal, a tutor and college planner in Westchester County, N.Y., "you don’t wait until your kid is 17 and say, ‘My kid really loves ice skating.’ You start when they are 5 or 6."

By LAURA PAPPANO

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/education/edlife/is-your-first-grader-college-ready.html?emc=edit_th_20150205&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=34889205

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