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The South Leads
April 30, 2010
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
-Audrey Lorde, 1934-1992, Writer and Activist
-Audrey Lorde, 1934-1992, Writer and Activist
"There is an all-important exception to the pattern of Southern underperformance [in education, innovation, productivity and income]: high-quality, early childhood education — pre-kindergarten (Pre-K). As a result, the South in 2007 led the nation in offering state-funded Pre-K to three- and four-year-old children:
- 19% of three- and four-year-olds in the South are in state-funded Pre-K, more than double the rate in non-South states
- Two-thirds of the states with the highest standards for Pre-K are in the South
- Only six states require full-day Pre-K programs statewide, and all are in the South
- Nine Southern states fund Pre-K above the national average cost per child.
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Comments (5)
Displaying All 5 CommentsAlliance for Early Care & Education
Miami, Florida, United States
I doubt that anyone in Florida would would agree with such optimism. The stats reported here are easily challenged when you understand that our Voluntary PreKindergarten program does not include pre & post testing to measure learning gains, lacks adequate professional development opportunities, ignores serving students with special needs, is sorely underfunded @ $2,575 BSA and has been attacked by budget cuts every year since it was created in 2005!
Engagement Strategies
Potomac, MD, United States
I'm happy to see some states leading the way. The stats you quoted are impressive. Are are the measurable outcomes (specifically child outcomes in all four domains, including social-emotional) as impressive as the investments being made? My hunch is that they are, but I'd like to know more about how these programs are preforming. Can you point me to the stats?
Fran Simon, M.Ed.
Engagement Strategies
www.ESbyFS.com
United States
I have been in the field over 20 years and most of it has been in Atlanta, Georgia. Understand PreK is funded by lottery money. Our governor has cut funding to early childhood by 75% this year!
Macedon, New York, United States
I'm glad to hear that the south is putting funding into preschool. It may be the start to improve their whole system. I have experienced 2 school systems that lack many things that I considered standard. I had to provide kleenex, hand soap and all school supplies-not just the partial amount. Portable classrooms that are 50 years old are still being used. There were no music teachers for elementary school children. So if your classroom teacher didn't have some musical talent there was no instruction. Some schools have no gymnasium. If your school building had no gymnasium, the children had gym outside. During inclement weather the instruction was held in the classroom. What kind of program is gym in a classroom! All states and districts need to find a way to support top quality education for all children at every level.
Menzies School of Health Research
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Wont it be interesting to see how this turns the performance curves upward as the cohort and others that follow show the benfits of the preschool years.
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