The path to universal pre-kindergarten - Boston Globe
By The Editorial Board
In 2013, Harvard researchers published a head-turning study on Boston’s pre-kindergarten program.
The children had made impressive gains in language, literacy, math, executive function, and emotional regulation skills; some of the effects were the biggest ever recorded in a study of a large scale pre-K program…
Indeed, a pandemic that’s pushed too many women out of the workforce, and pulled too many kids out of classrooms, has put early education where it should have been all along: near the top of the agenda…
An infusion of state money would be enormously helpful — both in expanding pre-kindergarten for 4-year-olds and building on a much smaller program for 3-year-olds. And the next mayor should get squarely behind a new push by advocates for a major Beacon Hill investment in early education.