As I continue to research how important Early Childhood Education is, I found this interesting article in the NEA website, National Education Association. According to the NEA association, it is beneficial for our children to attend an ECE program. The NEA website mentions several studies that show the benefits of ECE in individuals that attended a program. Some of this benefits include; higher income than those individuals that didn't attend a preschool program, less repeated grades, longer marriages, likely to own a home and graduate high school, young people having less problems with the law and needing less help with a special education programs.
Just as we had read on the ed.gov website, the NEA believes that it is an investment for our country to support ECE. They both let us know how wages can be different for an individual that attends a preschool program, which then creates a stronger work force. And they both want opportunities for young children and their families.
The president of the NEA Dennis Van Roekel said," High-quality early childhood education and full-day kindergarten are fundamental to a student's long term success and shouldn't be determined by their parents' income...[It] is the right thing to do." The NEA supported a legislation that would give opportunities to children from birth to ages 5 and encourage states to support early head start programs.
After reading more about the importance of early childhood education I wonder, why is it so difficult to have ECE programs? What more studies do we need to prove it?
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