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Published: June 26, 2008
State's early childhood education praised
Four-year-olds in a state pre-kindergarten program showed dramatic improvements in pre-reading, pre-writing and pre-math skills and outperformed their peers in a similar federal program, a new study shows. William Gormley , a professor of public policy at Georgetown University , and his colleagues tested about 3,500 incoming Tulsa Public Schools kindergartners, as well as children entering Tulsa's pre-K program and th...
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