'Alarming' study finds children who attended state-funded pre-K worse off than peers
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Children who attended a state-funded pre-kindergarten were doing worse than their peers at the conclusion of sixth grade, study finds
The multi-year study focused on 2,990 children who attended state-funded Tennessee pre-K schools during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years. The study, which was published by the American Psychological Association, found that those students were worse off than their peers by the time the sixth grade concluded on issues such as academic achievement, discipline issues and special education referrals.
"Data through sixth grade from state education records showed that the children randomly assigned to attend pre-K had lower state achievement test scores in third through sixth grades than control children, with the strongest negative effects in sixth grade," the study’s abstract says.
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