EDUC 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Parental Leave, Child Care, Birth Weight
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Agenda: early childhood well-being by the numbers, child policy and early childhood education by the numbers, preschool: programs, funding, and politics. 43% of children under 6 are in low-income families: they enter school at different levels . Children from low-income families are less likely to attend preschool and have lower academic and behavioral scores at kindergarten: kids who are richer do better, especially in reading and math skills. Oecd (organization for economic cooperation and development) average: 85% Child poverty: portion of children age 0-5 living in poverty: 1 in 4, portion of children age 0-5 living in poverty; white, black, and hispanic: 31%, 24%, 36: international rank of us child well-being: 26th, rank of us in gdp in the world: 1st. Synapses: what makes the connections in the brain. Poverty gets under the skin in early childhood: living in poverty can affect language, memory, and executive functions , dna is not destiny.
