High-quality preschool as antipoverty: a child's early years are a fertile time to eliminate the intergenerational cycle of disadvantage.(POVERTY AND EDUCATION)

NEW EVIDENCE ON BRAIN DEVELOPment during a child's early years makes it clear that early childhood should be a focus of increased policy attention. We now know that the basic architecture of the brain is constructed through an ongoing process that might be compared to the construction of a home: Beginning before birth, the brain's foundation is laid, with the neurological equivalent of the framing of rooms and the installation of the electrical and plumbing systems occuring in a predictable sequence that continues through early adulthood.

The brain's architecture is built over ...

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