When it comes to your child, the first few years of their life are absolutely crucial to their development. The fundamentals you provide to your child in their earliest years will provide the foundation that shapes their future health, happiness, growth and overall development.

1. The Future of America in Our Hands: Fixing Early Education
The Future of America
In Our Hands Fixing Early Education

2. The first few years of a child’s life is critical in the learning
process. Much of their future success can be determined by
what they learn in these years. Based on decades of
research, this fact holds true in every case. What a child
learns emotionally, socially, and mentally before they are 8
years old will stay with them for the rest of their lives. It is
important to take their early education seriously.
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3. • We need to understand more about early
education and its impact on a child, discovering
what’s wrong with our current early education
system and how we can fix it.
• Some say “early” any child under the age of 8.
Others say it includes only toddlers and infants.
But even more say it means a child that is 3 or 4.
• Early education is the time in which “the human
brain undergoes rapid development,” in other
words a child can build cognitive skills, develop
character, grow socially and emotionally, become
skilled in motor skills and problem solving.
What is “Early Education”?
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4. • While preschool is not governmentally funded,
there are low-income families who cannot afford it
leaving many children not experiencing the same
kind of education as their peers.
• While state-funded programs and low-income
high-quality early education options are available,
people don’t seem to be using them. In 2013,
only 28% of American 4-year-olds were
enrolled in state-funded preschool programs.
What’s the Problem?
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5. Academic failure can be tied to early education. The
more children entering the school system without this
benefit can lead to higher incarceration rates and
poor productivity in the workforce.
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6. • The National Association of Early Childhood Teachers
say children who have the opportunity to get an early
education succeed in their academics and excel
socially later in life. Making them less likely to repeat a
grade or take intensive classes and more likely to
graduate high school.
• Early education benefits everyone- so why not ensure
every child gets it? It can be practiced at a preschool,
or at home by caregivers. However, programs like
HeadStart and state and government campaigns have
been geared towards the issue for low-income
families. These programs exist and have been
escalating in numbers, but attendance has not
increased.
What’s the Solution?
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7. Money — economically, paying quality teachers and
paying for a building and the cost of upkeep adds up.
Programs with money and funding will help. Some
states have done this: Oklahoma offers every 4-year-
old a free year of prekindergarten. New Jersey has
had Supreme Court-mandated preschool programs
for 3- and 4-year-olds school districts which are less
fortunate for decades.
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8. Experts and educators are still debating the ways we
can do something to help so many people at such a
young age, but it is obvious that something needs to
be done to improve early education. Research,
government attention, and funding is what America
needs to help the future of the country.
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