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  • 1.  When Public School Starts at Age 3

    Posted 07-12-2019 16:41
    Have you read this recent Opinion piece?  When Public School Starts at Age 3

    It raises some interesting questions, like this one, "Is the goal academic readiness, social and emotional learning, better health outcomes, access to child care, raising future incomes, decreasing the size of future prison populations - or some combination of these? Then, once we've defined success, how do we measure it?"

     
    "So far, though, Washington's example does suggest that a universal, full-day, well-funded, school-based, developmentally-appropriate, holistic pre-K program can improve children's lives."

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    Opinion | When Public School Starts at Age 3
    The nation's capital offers a popular pre-K program that leaves new parents with just three years of child care to cover. By Conor P. Williams Dr. Williams is the father of two graduates of Washington's public pre-K program. Free public school starting at age four, or even three, is growing in many American cities.
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  • 2.  RE: When Public School Starts at Age 3

    Posted 07-15-2019 11:08
    Edited by Patricia Price 07-15-2019 11:09
    Wonderful article. I like how they try to define quality. Washington includes Universal Pre-K with their entire public school education. Quality Pre-k strives for Kindergarten readiness just as kindergarten prepares children for First grade and so on. Washington financially invests in all children and teachers are compensated at a similar rate that other teachers in upper grades are. 

    Very often local and state governments evaluate education programs primarily on immediate financial burdens. They don't see the "whole child" or "whole Family" assets. 

    The closing comment of this article provides a good challenge for everyone: 
    "So far, though, Washington's example does suggest that a universal, full-day, well-funded, school-based, developmentally-appropriate, holistic pre-K program can improve children's lives - if the public is patient, and willing to pay."

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    Patricia Price
    Glen Ellyn IL
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  • 3.  RE: When Public School Starts at Age 3

    Posted 07-15-2019 12:23
    What does prison have to do with public schools starting at age 3 ???

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    Jefferstine Washington
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  • 4.  RE: When Public School Starts at Age 3

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    Posted 07-16-2019 11:39
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    https://heckmanequation.org/

    If you go to the above website, a case is made for quality preschool having long term positive affects on life outcomes. That would include lowering the percentage of those who would be incarcerated.
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  • 5.  RE: When Public School Starts at Age 3

    Posted 07-16-2019 23:54
    Your statement means that if parents who live in the city do not send their children to school at the age of three in the long run their children will end up in prison???



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    This message was posted by a user wishing to remain anonymous

    https://heckmanequation.org/

    If you go to the above website, a case is made for quality preschool having long term positive affects on life outcomes. That would include lowering the percentage of those who would be incarcerated.


  • 6.  RE: When Public School Starts at Age 3

    Posted 07-17-2019 10:31
    Not at all. Simply restating the results of the study showing the attending high quality preschool means that children were less likely to be involved in the criminal justice system, which means that all of the great work that so many of you are doing to support children and families makes a positive difference for kids! 


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    ------Original Message------

    Your statement means that if parents who live in the city do not send their children to school at the age of three in the long run their children will end up in prison???





  • 7.  RE: When Public School Starts at Age 3

    Posted 07-17-2019 11:29

    I don't think anyone is trying to say if you don't send your kids to school at age 3 they will go to prison later in life. Many studies have shown that 'high risk' children (in poverty, with disabilities/learning difficulties), wherever  they live, are more likely to have a better 'outcome' in the long term when they are exposed to high quality learning experiences early in life, and do even better when that high quality extends throughout their learning years!

    School at age 3 doesn't have to mean sitting in a desk/at a computer learning like robots. Students can/do learn through play (many programs require at least 1-2 hours of 'free play'), songs, manipulatives, games; by hearing language modeling/ questions, and getting positive reinforcement of their efforts from their teachers!

    Whether public schools can provide that consistently remains to be seen, but with evidence that shows children do better with high quality early education, wouldn't investment in early education be a wise choice?

     

    Judy Owen

    Research Assistant

    FPG Child Development Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill

     



    ------Original Message------

    Your statement means that if parents who live in the city do not send their children to school at the age of three in the long run their children will end up in prison???





  • 8.  RE: When Public School Starts at Age 3

    Posted 07-16-2019 16:22
    This comes from Dr. James Heckman's (an economist at the University of Chicago) most recent study looking at the long-term effects of preschool on children who participated in the Perry Preschool program, an early intensive preschool program for children who lived in poverty. This study looks at their lives at age 40. His findings show that children who attended this program were less likely to become teen parents, more likely to both graduate from high school and have a job with higher earnings, and less likely to be involved in the criminal justice system. If you're interested, you can learn more at the link below,

     https://highscope.org/perry-preschool-project


    Sarah Hadden, Ph.D. | Senior Advisor, Research and Professional Services
    675 Peter Jefferson Parkway Ste 400
    Charlottesville, VA 22911


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    What does prison have to do with public schools starting at age 3 ???

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    Jefferstine Washington
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