The newsletter that I am prescribed to is NIEER National Institute For Early Education Research. In this weeks newsletter November 22,2919/Volume19/Issue 43 an issue I decided to read more about was related to schools helping to prolong early childhood education effects?
The article highlights included
- Children who attend an early childhood education program are more likely to attend a higher quality school.
- Attending a magnet middle school is associated with higher state test scores
- Attending a magnet middle school is associated with higher rates of attending a middle school
The notion is that an ECE student is most likely going to have a better chance of getting accepted to a magnet school, or any school of high academic achievement. Accordingly to Gormley (2018) Acceptance into an academic magnet school at both the middle school and high school levels is based in part on student grades and teacher recommendations. Because ECE increases student test scores we expected students enrolled in ECE to be accepted into a academic magnets at higher rates.
This issue to me sounds very realistic, and I can definitely see how ECE relates to students being accepted into higher performing middle schools and high schools. The study that the group performed on this issue was about to conclude that students who attend ECE programs are accepted at higher rates and show academic success, which is credited to them attending ECE programs.
Gormley,W (2018) The effects of Tulsa’s preschool program on middle school student performance. Journal of Policy Ayynalysis and Management, 37 pp. 63-67.
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