Education Law

The benefits of universal pre-K

British researchers found that children who attended preschool scored as much as 27 percent higher on math test than their peers with preschool, according to this article in the Boston Globe

?Preschool boosts the child?s cognitive language and social development,? said lead researcher Edward Melhuish from the University of London. ?Therefore when the child starts school, the child benefits more from the school experience and many aspects of development are better, including math scores.?

In the U.S. numerous studies have shown the benefits of preschool. Check out information on NSBA?s advocacy on voluntary publicly funded preschool here. While state investments in pre-K have risen over the years, we are far from providing universal pre-K to all three- and four-year-olds like our British friends have done since 2004.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on September 05, 2008 (boomark / email).