The New America Foundation urges California in a new report to spend more on training and paying pre-kindergarten teachers.
“Our bottom line is that California is not doing enough to educate early childhood educators so that kids don’t fall way behind in school,” the report’s author, Sarah Jackson, told EdSource, an online educational news site.
The operative phrase is “so that kids don’t fall way behind in school.”
It reflects a strong consensus among educators and politicians that early childhood intervention is needed to close the oft-mentioned “achievement gap” separating poor and English-learner students – Latino and black, mostly – from their more affluent white and Asian American classmates.
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