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by barry-cotter
1703 days ago
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Pre-K decreases educational attainment and increases criminality. The effects are not small. We have evidence from Quebec where they introduced universal childcare and Tennessee where we have evidence from randomised controlled trials. > Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long-run benefits. We test the symmetry of this contention by studying the effects of a sizeable negative shock to non-cognitive skills due to the introduction of universal child care in Quebec. We first confirm earlier findings showing reduced contemporaneous non-cognitive development following the program introduction in Quebec, with little impact on cognitive test scores. We then show these non-cognitive deficits persisted to school ages, and also that cohorts with increased child care access subsequently had worse health, lower life satisfaction, and higher crime rates later in life. The impacts on criminal activity are concentrated in boys. Our results reinforce previous evidence on the central role of non-cognitive skills for long-run success. https://www.nber.org/papers/w21571?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medi... > In second grade, however, the groups began to diverge with the TN‐VPK children scoring lower than the control children on most of the measures. The differences were significant on both achievement composite measures and on the math subtests. https://my.vanderbilt.edu/tnprekevaluation/files/2013/10/Apr... |
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The Quebec study is an indictment against the poor quality of studied Pre-K provision, that's it.
The quote you pulled from the Vanderbilt study doesn't seem to exist. It's not in the linked paper, which actually states "The effects on the early literacy, language, and math skills of children who attended TN‐VPK were all statistically significant with gains ranging from 37% to 176% greater than those of children not in TN‐VPK." (pg 4).
Interested readers might find this report by the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology useful. Loads of linked studies: https://post.parliament.uk/the-impact-of-early-childhood-edu...
High-quality early childhood education (Pre-K) works really well, especially when combined with positive parent engagement. Rubbish early childhood education often doesn't work, and can lead to worse attainment than no early childhood education, again also dependant on learning at home. A reasonable assumption is that Pre-K/early childhood education is a garbage in, garbage out function - just like parenting.