While Jimmy Meng professed his innocence outside court - and his lawyer
declined comment - the feds say they have
substantial evidence from the cooperating witness» recordings of phone calls and conversations with Meng
dating back to last December.
To
date, the immediate and lasting positive effects of quality care on language, cognitive development, and school achievement have been confirmed by converging findings from large, reasonably representative longitudinal studies and smaller, randomized trials with long - term follow - ups.1, 2,9 - 13 Contributors to this knowledge base include meta - analytic reviews of interventions and large longitudinal studies conducted in several countries.1, 2,14,15 Comprehensive meta - analyses now establish that effects of early care
decline, but do not disappear, and when initial effects are large, long - term effects remain
substantial.1, 2 Null findings in cognitive and social domains in a few studies may reasonably be attributed to the limitations inherent to their designs, samples, and measures.