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Columbus Kids getting results, August 2012
Families trust the program and see the benefit of Learning Checkups. Two year evaluation report shows children are getting help before they start kindergarten.
Columbus Kids, April 19, 2011
First-year evaluation finds 100% of targeted preschoolers received Learning Checkups to assess kindergarten readiness.
Columbus Dispatch, October 15, 2009
Gene Harris, superintendent of Columbus City Schools, discusses plans for the district including a new kindergarten readiness program.
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- 85% of a child's capacity to learn is established by age 5.
Source: Rethinking the Brain: New Insights into Early Development by Rima Shore (NY: Families and Work Institute, 1997)
- In 2007, nearly 40 percent of incoming district kindergarten students, who did not have quality pre-kindergarten training, required intervention because they lacked foundational skills.(Columbus City Schools Superintendent, Gene Harris, 2007.)
- Children who enter school unprepared begin at a disadvantage and the achievement gap can widen as the child moves through the school system. (Rand Corporation, 2007).
- In the United States, it is common practice for the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections to use the number of children not reading at grade level by the third grade to predict the number of jail cells that will be needed in the future.(Arizona Governors Forum, 2007).
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