Many states don't require students to attend pre-school or even make pre-school programs mandatory. However, a long-running study has found that pre-school actually does have beneficial effects. These effects include employment and delinquency rates, and are especially prominent among disadvantaged children.
I have learned about the positive effects of pre-school effects in many of my classes during college, and it always amazes me how such a simple program can have such a dramatic effect. Hopefully, schools, daycares and state boards of education will take these results to heart and begin to expand and enhance these programs as well as require free early elementary programs.
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