{"id":240,"date":"2014-03-31T20:35:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T20:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=240"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:08:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:08:03","slug":"nyc-gets-with-the-program-on-pre-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2014\/03\/31\/nyc-gets-with-the-program-on-pre-k\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Gets with the Program on Pre-K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">These days, if kids learn all they really need to know in kindergarten, it means they\u2019re a year behind their preschool-educated peers. Fortunately for children in NYC, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/31\/nyregion\/de-blasio-betting-on-pre-k-to-succeed.html?hp&amp;_r=0\">Mayor Bill de Blasio managed to secure $300 million in state funding to provide free prekindergarten citywide<\/a>. Although the mayor\u2019s pre-K proposal carried the day, the public education debates in New York echo nationwide controversy over which policies promise the best long-term outcomes.\u00a0Sociologists wonder, who benefits most from programs like Head Start?<\/p>\n<h5>Though policy debates continue, the positive impacts of preschool have been known for a long time.\u00a0These programs prevent learning difficulties, promote healthy development, and decrease the likelihood of incarceration for urban and low-income kids.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/yu.edu\/faculty\/pages\/Caputo-Richard\">Richard K. Caputo<\/a>. 2003. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.b.ebscohost.com\/ehost\/detail?sid=fd51ff29-259b-4fd8-ac91-6bbb33d996b6%40sessionmgr198&amp;vid=1&amp;hid=123&amp;bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d%20\">Head Start, Other Preschool Programs, &amp; Life Success in a Youth Cohort.<\/a>\u201d <em>Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare<\/em>, 30(2): 105-22.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cehd.umn.edu\/icd\/people\/faculty\/cpsy\/reynolds.html\">Arthur J. Reynolds<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhh.umn.edu\/people\/jtemple\/\">Judy A. Temple<\/a>, Dylan L. Robertson, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unlv.edu\/people\/emily-mann\">Emily A. Mann<\/a>. 2001. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/jama.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=193816\">Long-term Effects of an Early Childhood Intervention on Educational Achievement and Juvenile Arrest: A 15-year Follow-up of Low-Income Children in Public Schools<\/a>.\u201d <em>Jama<\/em>, 285(18), 2339-2346.<\/li>\n<li>John R. Berrueta-Clement. 1984. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/files.eric.ed.gov\/fulltext\/ED313128.pdf\">Changed Lives: The Effects of the Perry Preschool Program on Youths through Age 19. Monographs of the High\/Scope Educational Research Foundation, Number Eight\u201d<\/a>. Monograph Series, High\/Scope Foundation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>One caveat to this trend, though: a rapid expansion in pre-K access might also mean increased misdiagnoses of ADHD in young children.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.berkeley.edu\/people\/stephen-hinshaw\">Steven Hinshaw <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/sph.berkeley.edu\/richard-scheffler\">Richard M. Scheffler.<\/a> 2014. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/adhdexplosion.com\/\"><em>The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medication, Money, and Today&#8217;s Push for Performance<\/em><\/a>. New York: Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more on how children&#8217;s mental health labels change when institutions change, check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/reading-list\/learning-to-see-the-spectrum\/\">recent TSP Reading List post<\/a> on autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, if kids learn all they really need to know in kindergarten, it means they\u2019re a year behind their preschool-educated peers. Fortunately for children in NYC, Mayor Bill de Blasio managed to secure $300 million in state funding to provide free prekindergarten citywide. 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