A new report: On your marks: measuring the school readiness of children in low-to-middle income families by Jane Waldfogel and Elizabeth Washbrook for the Resolution Foundation.
The extent to which children start school ready and able to learn can have a long-term impact on their likelihood of success in education and employment. It is well known that children from the poorest backgrounds are already falling behind their more affluent peers at the start of school. But little is known about the school readiness of children from low to middle income families. Analysis of a cohort of 15,000 children born in 2000 found that, at the start of school, children from low to middle income families were five months behind children from higher income families in terms of vocabulary skills – an important measure of cognitive development – and had more behaviour problems.
Published 13 December 2011
Report:
http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/media/media/downloads/On_your_marks.pdf [PDF 948KB]
Technical appendix:
http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/media/media/downloads/FINAL_Technical_Appendix_Early_child_outcomes_in_low_to_middle_incomes_families.pdf
[PDF 917KB]
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