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A Lot of What I Learned, I Learned Before Kindergarten:
A Broader, BOLDER Approach to Early Childhood Care and Education
Elaine Weiss
National Coordinator, BBA
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Income-based achievement gaps
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IF
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Misdiagnosing the Gap
Low-SES Middle-SES High-SES310
320
330
340
350
360
370
1st grade
1st grade
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Drivers of the Gap?
Poverty-related factors:• Physical and Mental Health Problems• Poor Nutrition• Lack of support for, less-educated parents• Weak access to quality early childhood care
and education
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Impacts of Poverty: Maternal and Infant Health
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Impacts of Poverty: Infant Health
White infants African-American infants0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
Ever breastfedBreastfed at 6 months
Source: Currie 2005
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Impacts of Poverty: Maternal and Infant Health
Depressed mothers Young Black Children
Young White Children
0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%
PoorNon-poor
Source: Currie (2005)
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Impacts of Poverty: Parental Education
College Educated Parents
Very Low-Income Parents
1200
600
200
16 mos. 24 mos. 36 mos.
Child’s Age (Months)
Source: Hart and Risley
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Impacts of Poverty: Opportunity Gaps
Lack of well-child visits, screenings
Undetected delays
Missed vaccinations
Chronic ear, other infections
Poor nutrition, food insecurity
Lack of access to dental care
Tooth decay, cavities, obesity
Missed school days
Lack of focus in class
ER/hospital visits
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Policy Priorities that Work?
Reduce school readiness gap through:
• Supports for parents as children’s primary caregivers and first teachers
• Boosts to maternal, infant, and toddler health• Access to high-quality early childhood care and
education programs• Systemic coordination of early childhood supports
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Parental Leave
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102030405060
Paid maternity leave (weeks)
Source: Ray, CEPR (2008)
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Nurse Home Visits
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Family Health and Nutrition Supports
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Quality Early Childhood Education
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BBA ECE in Practice
Where is this happening? …
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Omaha, Nebraska
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Vancouver, Washington
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Harlem, New York City
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Orlando, Florida
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Visit www.boldapproach.org/early-childhood-education ECE Policy Statement and supporting bibliography2-page ECE Policy BriefBlogs and media clipsCopy of this PowerPoint and notes/stump speech to adapt
Contact Elaine Weiss, BBA National Coordinator:[email protected], 202 331-5537
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from the Abecedarian Project. Applied Developmental Science, 6, 42-57.
• Currie, Januet (2005). “Health Disparities and Gaps in School Readiness,” 15 Future of Children No.1, Spring, pp.117-138.
• Delpisheh, Ali, Brabin, Loretta and Brabin, Bernard (2006) 'Pregnancy, smoking and birth outcomes'. Women's Health, Vol 2, Issue 3.
• Department
of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Policy, Research, and Evaluation (November 2010). “Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness Review: Executive Summary
.”
• Fosburg, L.B., & Brown, B. (1984). The effects of Head Start health services: Executive Summary of the Head Start evaluation .
Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates.
• Hart, Betty and Todd Risley (1995). Meaningful Differences. Baltimore, MD, Brookes Publishing.
• Jehl, Jeanne (2012). Healthy Beginnings: A System of Care for Young Children in Atlanta’s NPU-V. Annie, E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore,
MD.
• Ray, Rebecca (September 2008). A Detailed Look at Parental Leave Policies in 21 OECD Countries, Center for Economic and Policy
Research.
• Reynolds, Arthur J., The Chicago Child-Parent Centers: A Longitudinal Study of Extended Early Childhood Intervention, discussion
paper no. 1126-97, Madison, Wisc.: Institute for Research on Poverty, 1997. As of September 29, 2008: http://
www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/dps/pdfs/dp112697.pdf
• Schweinhart, Lawrence J., Jeanne Montie, Zongping Xiang, W. Steven Barnett, Clive R. Belfield, & Milagros Nores (2005). Lifetime
Effects: The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study Through Age 40 (pp. 194–215). Ypsilanti, MI: High/Scope Press. © 2005 by High/Scope®
Educational Research Foundation.