{"id":4751,"date":"2024-05-28T11:09:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tuteurcps.com\/is-there-a-true-advantage-to-pre-k\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:56:23","slug":"is-there-a-true-advantage-to-pre-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tuteurcps.com\/en\/is-there-a-true-advantage-to-pre-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There a True Advantage to Pre-K?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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More and more schools are now offering a pre-kindergarten program, and an increasing number of parents are eager to have their children start working on developing their academic knowledge at an early age. There is a general sense that the earlier we start something, the better. But is there really an advantage for children who attend pre-k versus those who do not? Let\u2019s take a quick look at what the research tells us. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Academic progress: pre-k versus no pre-k <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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A recent study in the journal Developmental Psychology investigated the difference between children who attended a pre-k program and those who entered school at the kindergarten level a year later. Those attending pre-k showed better developed academic skills than their non-attending peers. Interestingly though, once both groups entered kindergarten, this difference began diminishing, and continued to do so until the spring. Overall, those who skipped pre-k and entered kindergarten directly seem to make similar learning gains by the end of the school year as those who attended pre-k. <\/p>

That being said, what this study really shows us is that all children improve and develop their academic skills by attending kindergarten, whether or not they attended pre-k. In other words, it appears there are no clear academic benefits to sending your child to pre-k, BUT there are no distinct disadvantages either. In fact, pre-k can help them get accustomed to the routine of the school-day, the expectations in the classroom, and work on socialization with a large group of peers. <\/p>

There may be reasons why pre-k programs are not setting children up to be ahead of their peers academically once they enter kindergarten. It is possible that the program needs re-design to better match children\u2019s developmental capacities; this is an area where more research is required. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Pre-k: a personal family choice<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Whether or not to send your child to pre-k or wait until kindergarten is a personal family choice. There are many reasons for and against sending your child to pre-k. What do you think would best suit your family for the upcoming school year? Will you be sending your child to pre-k? <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More and more schools are now offering a pre-kindergarten program, and an increasing number of parents are eager to have their children start working on developing their academic knowledge at an early age. There is a general sense that the earlier we start something, the better. But is there really an advantage for children who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educational-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuteurcps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuteurcps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuteurcps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuteurcps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuteurcps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tuteurcps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"https:\/\/tuteurcps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuteurcps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuteurcps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuteurcps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuteurcps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}