Prichard Committee said that solutions need to
include early childhood investments that will reduce school readiness gaps.
Not exact matches
This could
include, for example, new
investments in
early childhood education and day care facilities.
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Instead, they urge a «broader, bolder» approach that
includes sharply increased
investment in «developmentally appropriate and high - quality
early childhood, preschool, and kindergarten education.»
Bartik shows that
investment in high - quality
early childhood education has several long - term benefits,
including higher adult earnings for program participants.
Our schools
include a rigorous curriculum that is aligned to the Common Core State Standards, and our
investments in the arts, technology and
early childhood education provide students with a well - rounded learning experience from the moment they start Kindergarten until the day they graduate from high school.
Many of our models
include a return on
investment component, which uses rigorous research to estimate the returns realized by a program or by a comprehensive
early childhood system.
These nearly identical approaches provided comprehensive
early childhood care and learning from birth through age five, and delivered a 13 % per year return on
investment,
including all costs associated with running the programs.
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Experiences in the first 1000 days of life have a crucial influence on child development and health.1 Appropriate
early child development (
including physical, social and emotional, language and cognitive domains) has consistently been shown to be associated with good health and educational outcomes in
childhood and consequent health and employment outcomes in adulthood.2 — 4 Adopting a life course approach,
including early intervention, is essential, 5 and
investment is therefore needed in effective prenatal and postnatal services to optimise child health, well - being and developmental resilience.6
«The potential economic returns from such health benefits are substantial but have not always been
included in benefit - cost analyses or in policy debates regarding public
investments in
early childhood development programs.»
The long - term benefits of
early childhood education —
including improved academic performance, reduced need for special education and grade retention, higher high school graduation rates, and higher wages — necessitate greater
investments.
Any plan that gets people back to work must
include an
investment in child care and
early childhood education programs to meet the needs of working families.
While most countries —
including the United Kingdom, Mexico, and China — have pledged larger
investments in
early childhood education, the United States is scaling back its programs.
Reduced the intergenerational transmission of poverty through
investments in
early childhood and primary and secondary education
including improvements to maternal and paternal leave policies, the introduction of universal preschool for 3 - and 4 - year - olds, and expansions of child care assistance for working families.
The goal is to ensure that the interests of at - risk children from birth to age five are
included in policy and funding decisions across the country and build additional public / private sector
investment in the field of
early childhood.
An analysis released today by the White House Council of Economic Advisers describes the economic returns to
investments in
early childhood education,
including increased parental earnings and employment in the short - term, reduced need for remedial education and later public school expenditures, as well as long - term outcomes such as increased educational attainment, increased earnings, improved health, and decreased involvement with the criminal justice system.
The spending bill also
includes $ 5 million to fund grants to support infant and
early childhood mental health, a first - time federal investment, as well as a $ 115 million increase for Early Head Start, a crucial program that can change the course for infants and toddlers living in pov
early childhood mental health, a first - time federal
investment, as well as a $ 115 million increase for
Early Head Start, a crucial program that can change the course for infants and toddlers living in pov
Early Head Start, a crucial program that can change the course for infants and toddlers living in poverty.
These nearly identical approaches provided comprehensive
early childhood care and learning from birth through age five, and delivered a 13 % per year return on
investment,
including all costs...
The initiative began in 1993 and
includes 75 nonprofit agencies that assess local needs and direct
early childhood investments in the state's counties.