This research review, finds that children who
participate in high-quality early childhood education programs, or ECE
programs, before entering kindergarten later experience fewer special education
placements, decreased grade retention, and improved high school graduation
rates compared with peers who do not participate. These
results support ECE’s utility for reducing education-related expenditures and
promoting child well-being, as well as provide further evidence for the
potential individual and societal benefits of expanding ECE programming in the
United States.
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