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In short, he tells them how much fun he had and what he learned at school.  \nFor students ages 3 and 4 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, the two ideas—learning and fun—are one and the same. The school district has created a full-day preschool program in which teachers carefully plan fun, engaging, and educational lessons. They also carefully plan the day so children enjoy a mix of teacher-directed time, self-directed time, and play time. Many Perth Amboy children benefit from a curriculum that introduces letters and numbers, builds their vocabularies, honestheir listening and social skills, and gives them the background knowledge they need to be prepared for school. Adam’s teacher, for instance, engages with her pupils in their make-believe games of being a doctor or playing house to stretch their imaginationsand expand on what they know about the world.  \nOutside of school, that world is a bluecollar town on the banks of the Raritan River in central New Jersey. Many parents work in factories in neighboring areas, or have clerical or custodial jobs with the board of education or the sprawling hospital complex in the center of town. In all, 74 percent of the district’s students receive  \nJennifer Dubin is the assistant editor of American Educator. Previously, she was a journalist with the Chronicle of Higher Education.  \nAt the Ignacio Cruz Early Childhood Center, Carol Graff immerses students in a variety of content throughout the school year. Every four to six weeks, she introduces a topic for her class to study in depth. Throughout the fall, the children learned about apples, pumpkins, and spiders. Later, they will study clothing, pets, the ocean, and ice cream.  \nIn January and february, when these photos were taken, Graff’s students were studying hair. They studied the different styles, textures, and colors of hair, and learned vocabulary words such as scalp, hair follicle, and hair shaft. As part of the unit, Graff’s students grew grass—in paper cups decorated with faces—to simulate hair growing. Right, Steve displays his plant’s “hair.”  \nfree or reduced-price meals, and 68 percent speak a language other than English at home. Perth Amboy has long been a city of immigrants. Italians, Poles, Hungarians, and Ukrainians settled here in the early to mid-1900s, followed by Puerto Ricans in the 1970s. Today, the city is largely Latino, with many recent arrivals coming from South America, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.  \nAlthough it’s one of the wealthiest states in terms of median household income, New Jersey has its share of impoverished school districts. In 1998, the New Jersey Supreme Court, as a result of a school funding lawsuit known as Abbott  \n30 AMERICAN EDUCATOR | SPRING 2010  \nv. Burke (see “New Jersey Finally Gets It Right” on page 24), sought to address such disparities. Through court ordersand subsequent state regulations, 31 highpoverty school districts, including Perth Amboy, were required to provide full-day preschool for 3-and 4-year-olds. Each preschool class could be no more than 15 students and had to have a teacher with a bachelor’s degree and certification, as well as a trained paraprofessional. 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