Fordham Law School Professor Clare Huntington wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times about how to close the income-based achievement gap among children.
THE opening of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s universal pre-kindergarten program this week will give 53,000 children access to free, full-day pre-K in New York City, compared with 20,000 enrolled last year. This is well worth celebrating, and other cities and states should follow suit. But this investment in school preparation is not enough. If we want to close the income-based achievement gap, we need to begin much earlier.
Read the entire piece here.