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February 9, 2006
Fuel for preK programsState legislators should sit up and take notice of a new study that shows high quality state prekindergarten programs improves children's early language, literacy, and math development regardless of ethnic background or economic circumstances. The study, published by the National Insitute of Early Education Research, showed improvements far greater than found in a recent national study of the federal Head Start program.
The report explored state-funded preK programs in five states: Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia. Key findings include an 85 percent increase in growth in print awareness and a 44 percent increase in math skills among children who attended preK vs. those who did not.
These kinds of findings should be good news to governors such as Virginia's Tim Kaine who is pushing for a similar program as one of his first initiatives.
Posted February 9, 2006 11:54 AM | Early Childhood Education
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