There is an easy way to improve your child’s academic future. Early Childhood Care and Education is a way to create a strong foundation for your child’s emotional, social and academic.
Under 30% percent of parents without a college degree enroll there a child in a preschool program, and even fewer parents without a high school diploma enroll their students in Preschool. What Early Child Care and Education, or ECCE, can provide is a method for children to develop cognitive and social abilities in a relax and safe environment. ECCE programs can have a positive effect on a child’s social cognitive and emotional abilities. Increases their chance of academic success once they pursue primary education. The Perry Preschool program took in over 42 different families. Over the course of 4 years, they collected data on children in the program to find out if early childhood education programs had a positive and lasting effect on a child’s academic performance. What the program reveals is that children in the program show major improvements in their IQ and cognitive and social abilities. Activities like role-playing, group reading, and poem reciting create an engaging environment where children can develop their literacy skills through interactive conversation with teachers and students. Other activities, like matching, counting and sorting games build a child’s pre-math skills, while activities like puzzles encourage a child to problem solve and think ahead. Developing their literacy skills and cognitive ability would prepare them to excel in a traditional school environment. These activities are not introduced as core activities, but as play time in between their core activities, so it creates an environment where building literacy and pre-math skills are fun. Children not only develop their academic ability in preschool but also their social skills. They familiarize themselves with the social environment by interacting and having discourse with teachers and other students. For example, if there is a student that would like to join a group of kids during playtime the teacher will give him or her options on how to approach the other children to learn. By giving the child option on how to approach the situation they are using their problem-solving skills in a relaxed, comfortable and safe environment. The teacher gives the students solutions that will help prepare them for the social ability needed to be successful in primary school. ECCE programs reveal children to a relaxed learning environment where the child is able to stimulate there reading and comprehension skills. This program not only has immediate effects on improving students cognitive abilities but also had positive long-term effects. By improving grade retention rates.
ECCE enrollment percentage based on parent education level
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So we see that preschool has an extremely positive effect on both the child and the child’s family, but less than 50% of children of educated families. In 2006, California voters voted against a bill for universal preschool. The question is why doesn’t the public believe that universal preschool is worth there tax dollars. Financially speaking, the benefits of preschools programs greatly outway the cost of the programs, the program greatly reduces the cost of welfare and crime per student. The national cost of failing to provide at least two years of ECCE is extremely high, on the order of 100,000 dollars per child for each child born into poverty. Underfunded preschool programs can have just a negative effect as no preschool. So the next step is creating a program the is capable of funding both literacy programs. The benefits of ECCE programs greatly outweigh the cost of the program themselves. It can build a desire to learn, positively impact academic performance, and can create a controlled environment where I child curiosity can be fulfilled, while also greatly decreasing the achievement gap between low income and high-income children.