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More, better early education could help close California’s achievement gap
- 10-27-2011
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By Sarah Garland/Hechinger Report
In California, the state with the largest population of Hispanic students in the country, the achievement gap starts early—long before children enter school. Hispanic children are much less likely to enroll in preschool than white or black children, and begin kindergarten more than half a year behind their white counterparts. First-generation immigrant students, many who speak only Spanish, start out more than a year behind. One way to combat this problem, educators argue, is enrolling more Hispanic children in preschool, where they can learn to count, say the alphabet and practice the other pre-reading and math skills they will need later on. But is simply expanding the number of kids in preschool enough to solve the problem? (more...)
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