Study Lauds Role of Early Education

January 20, 2012

The latest data from the participants, at age 30, show that those who received early education were four times more likely to earn a college degree - 23 percent graduated from a four-year college, compared with 6 percent in the control group.
There is little question that such early education can improve the odds for poor children, said Frances Campbell, a senior scientist at the institute and lead author of the study.
"That's the take-home message, that you must not ignore the early years," she said, "because what you do to enhance a child's development when he is very, very young has very long-termimplications."
The children in the early-education group also were more likely to have consistent employment and less likely to have used public assistance.
Seventy-five percent had worked full time for at least 16 of the past 24 months, compared with 53 percent of the control group.

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