Higher Test Scores, Better Classroom Behavior, Higher Graduation Rates and Less Criminal Behavior Top the List of Preschool Benefits at Simba Informations Ready To Learn Conference

W. Steven Barnett, director of the National Institute of Early Education Research, in his keynote address at Simba Informations Ready To Learn: Opportunities in the Early Childhood Education Market Conference told attendees that the top list of preschool benefits, validated by several long-term tracking studies, are higher test scores, increased social skills, better classroom behavior, higher graduation rates, increased productivity and less criminal behavior.

(PRWEB) November 13, 2004 -- W. Steven Barnett, director of the National Institute of Early Education Research, in his keynote address at Simba Informations Ready To Learn: Opportunities in the Early Childhood Education Market Conference told attendees that the top list of preschool benefits, validated by several long-term tracking studies, are higher test scores, increased social skills, better classroom behavior, higher graduation rates, increased productivity and less criminal behavior.

In addition to highlighting the educational, as well as societal, benefits for children attending preschool, W. Steven Barnett also told the crowd that states are moving to universal early education programs. Everywhere you go, youre going to find majority support for states doing more on preschool," he said, noting that 85% of people polled support high-quality preschool.

W. Steven Barnett was just one of 16 speakers who examined the benefits of preschool and the state of early childhood education from the federal, state and local levels at Ready To Learn: Opportunities in the Early Childhood Education Market Conference, held on October 21, 2004 at the American Conference Centers in New York City. Simba Information, a recognized authority in the educational publishing space and publisher of the newsletters Educational Marketer and Electronic Education Report, as well as a host of market analysis reports, sponsored the all-day event.

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