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A new Zaentz Foundation video: Civic and business leaders discuss the power of early childhood education

July 18, 2018 /

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"For every 10 children in the U.S., six have access to some early education before kindergarten," Harvard’s Nonie Lesaux says in the video. However, "Only two of those six are in a setting that we would consider high-quality."

Among the video’s other key points:

• education is economic development

• the inter-generational impact of early childhood education helps children and their parents move ahead

• the social and emotional skills that early childhood education fosters are especially important given that people often have less face-to-face contact, and

• new governors are in a unique position to become early education champions

Check out the video and share it on your social media networks.

by Alyssa Haywoode

https://eyeonearlyeducation.com/2018/07/18/a-new-zaentz-foundation-video-civic-and-business-leaders-discuss-the-power-of-early-childhood-education/