The Positive Economic Impacts of Early-childhood Intervention and Education
| August 13, 2007 |  View for printing |
Minority preschoolers from low-income families who participated in a comprehensive school-based intervention appear to fare better educationally, criminally and economically into young adulthood, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
"Early childhood interventions have demonstrated consistent positive effects on children's health and well-being," the authors write as background information in the article. The types of programs that have received the largest growth in public funding are preschool programs for mostly at-risk 3- and 4-year-olds that provide both educational and family services in a center-based environment.
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