But, somewhat surprisingly, when we compare teachers and others with
similarly high levels of education, we find that teachers tend on average to be less supportive of free - speech rights (see Figure 1).
Not exact matches
A
similarly high rate
of return is unlikely for most current and proposed pre-K programs because many
of the children being served have relatively low
levels of risk for school failure, placement in special
education, later criminal behavior, or failure to become economically self - sufficient in adulthood.
Nevertheless, the MECSH trial showed some significant results and some trends that require replication in larger samples
of mothers drawn from a
similarly widely defined at - risk group, including older, multiparous mothers, and mothers with
higher levels of education than have been reported in other trials.1 14 Mothers
of infants and toddlers in the intervention group provided a home environment that was statistically significantly more supportive
of their child's development through more verbal and emotional responsivity; however, the effect size was small.