Education Dive – Tara García Mathewson
“The AIR research re-emphasizes the importance of structured early childhood education. The Obama administration’s Education Department has pushed for an expansion of high-quality early childhood programs and many cities and states have allocated more money toward these efforts in recent years. The study is interesting in showing benefits for children in homecare arrangements that are not with their own families when it comes to math and other measures of children’s ability to learn, even short of a structured learning environment, but homecare of any sort puts children behind in reading.”(more)