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UPDATE: National Report Said Pre-K Vital to Education
A report found that students enrolled in both pre-K and a half-day kindergarten program scored higher on reading tests than students who took only a full-day kindergarten program. Conference call changed to Thursday.
A full day of kindergarten alone isn't as good as pre-k and a half day of kindergarten, according to a report National School Boards Association’s Center for Public Education.
The report, “Starting Out Right: Pre-K and Kindergarten,” focused on reading scores in third grade and found that students who attended a pre-k and a half-day kindergarten program scored higher on reading tests than third-graders who had attended a day-long kindergarten program.
Jim Hull, the Center’s Senior Policy Analyst and author of the report, said a combination of a pre-K and full day of kindergarten is best but added that a half-day kindergarten program is the least beneficial of all early education programs.
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Join a conversation with Jim Hull, Senior Policy Analyst for NSBA’s Center for Public Education and Lucy Gettman, Director of Federal Programs for NSBA on this national report 2 p.m. CDT, Thursday by contacting: Linda Embrey, at (703) 838-6737, or at lembrey@nsba.org.
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