We know two important
things about early childhood education: 1) children who have access to quality programs generally outperform children who do not, and 2) the benefits of quality preschool can be further enhanced if quality of education is maintained in the K — 12 system.
Not exact matches
We know that
early childhood education is a good
thing, but even with growing enrollments and public investment, debate periodically erupts
about the specific benefits of
early education and whether those benefits last or fade away over time.
It's really important that, even if it's not something to worry
about, that the parent feel like their concerns can be heard by the
early childhood education centre and that they can be discussed and talked through because the partnership between the parent and the
early childhood education centre is really the
thing that will scaffold the child and keep the child developing well.
However, the advocates defining quality, what it means to be an
early educator, appropriate wages and the many other
things that need to be thought
about in policy for
early childhood education, haven't always been the people in field.