Belief based on evidence! About something that deals with the underlying local educational problem here: poverty. From her speech yesterday at the White House:

It is my belief and its also been demonstrated that if we provide early childhood education to Latino children it would take less than a decade to reap the benefits since investment in early education is proven to generate the fastest returns to the state.

With more ECD programs there will be less Latino students being held back, less dropouts and less crime involving school-age children; and they will be more productive individuals to society.

It’s proven that most Latino kids who drop out of school and perform poorly in high school didn’t have access to an early childhood education and lacked essential attention, stimulation and nutrition during the first 6 years of their lives.

Therefore, it is clear that the most powerful avenue for boosting academic achievement is improving the basic academic skills of children before kindergarten.

What say we try that instead of “consolidation”? What do local educational experts (not businessmen) say about this idea?

-jsq

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