To make the case for preschool, you need to know the facts.  Why is high-quality early learning important?  What does the research say?

You’ll find answers quickly to all these questions and more in the following fact sheets created by Preschool California and other early learning advocates

• Children Now - 2010 Policy Priorities: Early Care and Education
  
  
• Preschool California 2010 Early Learning Policy Priorities
  
  
• High-Quality Early Childhood Education: A Proven Investment in School Success
  
  
• Research Shows: The Benefits of High-Quality Early Learning
  
  
• Fight Crime: Invest in Kids California - Quality Early Education Prevents Crime
  
  
• Business Case for Preschool
  
  
• Advancement Project - Graph: Percentage of Low-Income Kids Enrolled in ECE Increases with Age, But Too Many Children Never Receive Birth to 5 ECE Services
  
  
• Advancement Project - Map: Statewide Preschool Facility Bond Funds Targeted to High Poverty Neighborhoods and Neighborhoods with API 1-3 Schools
  
  
• California Begins Comprehensive Early Learning System Reform
  
  
• Federal Landscape: Early Learning Opportunities for California
  
  
• Early Childhood Education Supporters in California
  
  
• First 5 - Power of Preschool

Research on Early Learning

• Harvard University Center on the Developing Child - In Brief: The Science of Early Childhood Development
• RAND Corporation - Strategies for Advancing Preschool Adequacy and Efficiency
• FPG Child Development Institute. - Age 21 Follow-Up Executive Summary, Early Learning, Later Success: The Abecedarian Study
• Georgetown University’s Center for Research on Children in the U.S. - The Effects of Oklahoma’s Universal Pre-Kindergarten Program on School Readiness
• Reynolds, A. et al., Journal of the American Medical Association - Long-term Effects of an Early Childhood Intervention on Educational Achievement and Juvenile Arrest
• High/Scope Educational Research Foundation - The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study Through Age 40: Summary, Conclusions, and Frequently Asked Questions

News Clips on Early Learning

• New York Times - Obama pledge stirs hope in early education - December 16, 2008
• San Francisco Business Times - Op-Ed: Stimulus can gird human infrastructure - February 7, 2009 - Jim Wunderman
• La Opinion - Editorial: Preschool education awaits - September 5, 2008
• Fresno Bee: Op-Ed: Our children must have preschool access - July 1, 2008 - Larry Powell
• San Diego Union-Tribune - Op-Ed: Closing the Latino student achievement gap - Pearl Quinones - November 16, 2007
• Sacramento Bee - Op-Ed: Starting early to fix the achievement gap - Jack O'Connell - November 9, 2007