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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So a poor kid of illiterate or non English speaking parents will have no benefit or even regress if they attend free high quality pre-k?

Bull ! People are so scared of their mediocre kid getting outperformed by poor POC kids aren’t they? [/quote]

Go read the studies yourself.  The kids get a bump for a few years and then it regresses back to the level of the control group.  In some cases worse.

In the article below, Vox talks about two studies where the kids in pre-k ended up worse.  Vox is by no means a right wing site, and in the article you can feel the author put a liberal spin on the results.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22904345/pre-k-cash-baby-brain-social-science[/quote]\

Here's an article talking about Head Start from Chalkbeat.org:

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2019/8/8/21108602/a-new-study-questions-whether-head-start-still-produces-long-run-gains-seen-in-past-research

[quote]That’s why a new study comes a surprise. When researchers used similar methods as Deming to look at students born later, mostly between 1986 and 1996, they found that Head Start provided no clear long-term benefits. If anything, the program led to somewhat worse outcomes.

The research offers some of the most up-to-date information about how Head Start affects students years later, and raises questions whether Head Start continues to deliver the positive outcomes it did in the past. In 2016-17, a third of U.S. 3- to 5-year-olds living in poverty were enrolled in the program.

“We’re using methods that have been accepted for a long time … and now we’ve got a bunch of negative results,” said Dylan Lukes, a Harvard graduate student and one of the authors.[/quote][/quote]

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