From guest blogger Alyssa Morones
Ed Week
In 1998, New Jersey mandated universal early childhood education starting at age three for all children in 31 of the state's urban school districts. A recent report found theeffects of this early education to be lasting.
The children followed in the study from the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers, were beneficiaries of the New Jersey Supreme Court's rulings in Abbott v. Burke, which found the New Jersey's previous school funding law unconstitutional when applied to students in the state's poorer urban districts.
In its ruling, the court directed the Legislature to enact a new law that would assure substantially equivalent funding for urban districts as successful suburban districts and would provide for supplemental programs to address urban students' extreme disadvantages.
The Abbott Preschool Longitudinal Effects Study began ...
