Home learning experiences boost low-income kids' school readiness

A new study looks at more than 1,850 children and their mothers from predominantly low-income households, that is, households at or below the federal poverty line and finds that differences in the children's learning environments over time predicted their school readiness skills. For example, children whose learning environments were consistently low in quality were much more likely to have delays in language and literacy skills at pre-kindergarten than children whose environments were uniformly high.

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