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The Importance of Early Childhood Education

5% perce t of whom you are; your

intellect, your intellect, your personality,

your social skills is developed by age 5.

Let’s i est where it makes the most

differe ce.

-Massachusetts Early Education for All

Benefits of Early Learning:

More likely to graduate from high school

A reduction in behavior problems throughout the school-career

Less likely o become involved with crime in later years

Longer attention spans and overall better retention of information

Improvement in the social skills of children

Reduction of the need for special education later in school

Generally better grades received

Every one dollar invested in quality early education for underprivileged children by taxpayers equals. Up

to thirteen dollars future costs to our society.

Pre – school has proven beneficial from youth to adulthood

A unique, 25 year study highlighted the impact of pre-school education into adulthood, tracking nearly

Chicago childre ho atte ded the Child-Pare t Ce ter Educatio Progra i the early s!

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Conclusions were drawn from:

- Public record

- Administrative data

- Interviews with study participants

Five hundred low-income Chicago youngsters, most of whom did not attend preschool.

Researchers found the most enduring effects were due to:

Exposure to as little as one or two years of pre-school, and intensive early hold hood experiences

accounted for an increase of:

- Motivation

- Intellectual skills

- Social adjustments

Nine thousand dollars is the estimated cost per child for eighteen months of pre-school.

Researchers’ cost-benefit analysis suggests these figure leads to ninety thousand dollars worth of

benefits per child, in terms of:

- Increased earnings less criminal behavior reduced mental health costs.

Among the study results:

Eighty percent of the pre-school group finished high school against seventy-five percent of the others

finished high school.

Additional research offered by the Digest of Educational Statistics show:

- 2 yrs. old in learning car centers demonstrated: greater cognitive skills than children in exclusive

care of parents.

- 4 yrs. old in center-based care were more inclined to develop: early reading scales, expressive

vocabulary, mathematics scales, color knowledge and fine motor skills than those cared for

exclusively by their parents, baby sitters and other care arrangements.

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