Report Details Benefits of Pre-K Programs
Children who attend high-quality state preschool programs with well-trained teachers make significant academic gains, regardless of their families’ economic status, according to a new study.
Researchers from the National Institute for Early Education Research, or NIEER, a think tank in New Brunswick, N.J., examined a sample of more than 5,000 4-year-olds enrolled in programs in 2004-05 in five states: Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia. They compared achievement scores of children who just completed the preschool program with those who were just about to enter.
They found that children’s average vocabulary scores grew 8 percent during the pre-K year, which translates to about four months of progress. In mathematics, children’s scores on such tasks as simple addition and subtraction, telling time, and counting money grew an...
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