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Early Education Corner: What the Science Says About How Preschool Benefits Children

17th May, 2017

[Source:  MindShift]

Some of the nation’s top researchers who’ve spent their careers studying early childhood education recently got together in Washington with one goal in mind: to cut through the fog of studies and the endless debates over the benefits of pre-school.

And they came away with one clear, strong message: Kids who attend public preschool programs are better prepared for kindergarten than kids who don’t.

The findings come in a report “The Current State of Scientific Knowledge on Pre-Kindergarten Effects,” and the authors include big names from the early childhood world: Deborah Phillips of Georgetown University, Mark W. Lipsey of Vanderbilt, Kenneth Dodge of Duke, Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution and others.

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