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A restart for Head Start?
While Head Start has made some progress, the federally funded program “continues to lack clear, comprehensive goals for program performance,” writes Sara Mead in Renewing Head Start’s Promise: Invest...
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Poor kids need homework
Too much homework may be a problem for the children of educated, affluent parents, writes Robert Pondiscio in The Atlantic. These kids start out ahead — enrichment starts in pregnancy — and attend...
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When urban Catholic schools close, their communities become more dangerous, argues a new book, Lost Classrooms, Lost Community. Crime rates go up. “Neighborhood health” deteriorates. The vital role of...
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‘Word gap’ is about quality, not just quantity
By age 3, the children of poorly educated, low-income mothers have heard 30 million fewer words than the children of educated, middle-class mothers, a study showed nearly 20 years ago. The “word gap”...
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Gentrification stops at schoolhouse door
Gentrification “usually stops at the schoolhouse door,” writes Nikole Hannah-Jones on Grist. When middle-class people move into low-income neighborhoods, few send their children to struggling local...
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Big Bird vs. preschool
Watching Sesame Street appears to help disadvantaged children get off to a good start in school, according to a new study. In the program’s early years, when it wasn’t available in all areas, children...
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Universal pre-k may widen achievement gap
“Universal” pre-k could widen New York City’s achievement gap, writes Robert Pondiscio. Mayor Bill de Blasio visited a prekindergarten class at Public School 130 in Lower Manhattan Mayor Bill de...
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Pre-K fails in Tennessee
The benefits of Tennessee’s pre-K program for at-risk children disappeared by the end of kindergarten, concludes the TN-VPK Effectiveness Study. By the end of second grade, children who attended TN-VPK...
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School-based pre-K doesn’t work
School-based pre-K doesn’t improve the lives of disadvantaged children in a “significant, sustained” way, write researchers Katharine B. Stevens and Elizabeth English on the American Enterprise...
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Boarding school may not be enough for poor kids
SEED, a five-day-a-week boarding school for low-income Washington, D.C. students, has been trying to “break cycles of poverty and unhealthy family and neighborhood pressures at home,” writes Eric...
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