"I've heard from criminal justice professionals around the country. They tell me that most of the children that end up in jail don't come from middle and upper middle class families. The come from poverty families. These professionals see the problems every day. They realize that if a child has a very slow start, or if they're far behind in kindergarten, odds are the criminal justice system is going to see them somewhere down the road, five, ten, fifteen years later."
Arthur Rolnick
www.childrenofthecode.org
"Solving the problem becomes more expensive once a child starts school. Most of the research says if the child starts out significantly behind, that's a good predictor of how they're going to end up in the third grade, the sixth grade and beyond. The good news is that ECD research tells us that interventions can work, and that investing in a child's early years of development yields a much better return than waiting to invest in later years."
Arthur Rolnick
www.childrenofthecode.org
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