Background
The Current Early Education System
The current system of early childhood education in America has many flaws. With about 30,000 kids per year move on to secondary schools without basic skills in English , there definitely needs to be improvements made
The Importance of Early Childhood Education
The importance of literacy is seen through the social and economic negative outcomes of being illiterate which include unemployment, underemployment, or incarceration. The ability to use and process the English language, is a necessary tool to maintaining democracy in America.
The Cost of Early Childhood Education
Many low income families cannot afford to place their children in quality early education programs, which ultimately makes these children fall behind academically, and encounter further problems down the road.