Originally Posted by Dude
Originally Posted by Tigerle
Academic readiness is a problem to be tackled at pre-school level, not when the kids are 17.

The journey to academic readiness begins in the womb, with health care, nutrition, and third trimester speech all noted as positive environmental influences. Their lack, plus parental stress, are all noted as negative environmental influences. All of these are themselves influenced by SES.


Strictly speaking, it begins with parental education and maternal nutrition LONG before conception...I was looking at it from an education policy viewpoint. There are larger social issues education policy can't ( and IMNSHO, shouldn't, and shouldn't be expected to) tackle, but from preschool age onward, high quality compensatory education policies do have a good track record.

Last edited by Tigerle; 11/26/14 12:17 PM.