Impacts of Early Childhood Education on Medium- and Long-Term Educational Outcomes
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Despite calls to expand early childhood education (ECE) in the United States, questions remain regarding its medium- and long-term impacts on educational outcomes. We use meta-analysis of 22 high-quality experimental and quasi-experimental studies conducted between 1960 and 2016 to find that on average, participation in ECE leads to statistically significant reductions in special education placement ( d = 0.33 SD , 8.1 percentage points) and grade retention ( d = 0.26 SD , 8.3 percentage points) and increases in high school graduation rates ( d = 0.24 SD , 11.4 percentage points). These results support ECE's utility for reducing education-related expenditures and promoting child well-being
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