The Importance of Early Childhood Education

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<p>Today's NY Times article concentrates on kindergarten but discusses the importance of the first five years of your life. I'm sure this will come as no surprise to many of you:</p>

<p>The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/business/economy/28leonhardt.html?_r=1&hp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/business/economy/28leonhardt.html?_r=1&hp&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>I have no doubt that the time we spent with our daughters during those years had a profound effect on them.</p>

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<p>Other researchers have found the same thing, but this represents a whole new source for the students, and much less intensive instruction.</p>

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<p>“All else equal, they were making about an extra $100 a year at age 27 for every percentile they had moved up the test-score distribution over the course of kindergarten.”</p>

<p>This quote made follow the link to the study to find the part where they tested the kids entering kindergarten and again at the end of kindergarten. I couldn’t find it. (I had a hard time following the charts.)</p>