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Moon7296 Posted 13 years ago
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About 65% of kindergartners in the US are in school five to six hours a day. That percentage represents a doubling of the number of full-day kindergartners since the early 1980s. Even just a decade ago, most kindergartners only went for the morning or afternoon. The academic demands of kindergarten also have increased for today's generation of young kids. Regarded now as the entry point of academic life, kindergarten is seen as a time of basic but substantial learning rather than as a soft step into first grade.

Q) I was wondering "also" underlined above is appropriate in the sentence considering the context in the left and right. The sentence before is opposite to it but my question is why "also"?
  

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Not just time in school, but also academic rigor. )

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Not just time in school, but also academic rigor.

(Nothing was underlined.)
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About 65% of kindergartners in the US are in school five to six hours a day. That percentage represents a doubling of the number of full-day kindergartners since the early 1980s. Even just a decade ago, most kindergartners only went for the morning or afternoon. The academic demands of kindergarten also have increased for today's generation of young kids. Regarded now as the entry point of
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moon7296I was wondering how "also" can come when 3rd and 4th sentenses don't have in common idea.
I hear what you hear, but if you dwell on tiny mistakes of that kind you will go nuts. An expert writer would have made the connection better, but take pride in your reading skills, and see it as a challenge.
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Something has changed: the amount of time. The first few sentences talk about time.
Another thing has also changed: the level of academic rigor. The next sentence talks about academic demands.

Yes, a topic sentence might have tied these ideas together. Something like "Kindergarten today is not what it was when we were children." Then the two ideas of what has changed come under the um
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