Links between child care and academic achievement, behaviour persist into adolescence

Friday, May 14, 2010 - 08:02 in Psychology & Sociology

Teens who were in high-quality child care settings as young children scored slightly higher on measures of academic and cognitive achievement and were slightly less likely to report acting-out behaviours than peers who were in lower-quality child care arrangements during their early years, according to the latest analysis of a long-running study funded by the National Institutes of Health...

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