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• Young adults who had consistent child care as children scored higher on tests of academic skills, were more likely to attend a four year college, and were more likely to still be in school at 21.
  
  

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  Campbell FA, Pungello E. 2000. High quality child care has long-term benefits for poor children. Paper presented at the 5th Head Start National Research Conference, Washington DC. June 28-July 1, 2000.

• Early childhood development interventions are effective at preventing developmental delay by improving grade retention and placements in special education for those who need it.
  
  

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  Anderson LM, Shinn C, St. Charles J. 2002. Community interventions to promote healthy social environments: Early childhood development and family housing. A report on Recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Review 51:1-8.

• Children who attended early childhood programs: 1)Are significantly more likely to meet their school’s basic requirements; 2)Surpass control cases on the Stanford-Binet intelligence test; 3)Are more likely to give achievement-related reasons (such as school or work) for being proud of themselves; 4)Have mothers whose attitudes toward school performance and vocation aspirations have been positively affected by the child’s participation in early childhood programs.
  
  

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  Lazar I, Darlington R. 1982. The lasting effects of early education: A report from the consortium for longitudinal studies. F.D. Horowitz, Ed. Monographs of the Society for Research and Child Development. Serial # 195(47):#2-3.

• After studying the effects of early childhood development programs, the Centers for Disease Control Task Force on Community Preventive Services strongly recommends Early Childhood Development programs due to: 1)Increases in academic achievement (median effect size for all programs evaluated: +0.35); 2)Increases in IQ scores (median effect size +0.43); 3)Decrease of 21% of children who must stay in the same grade for those children in early childhood development programs; 4)Decrease of 12% of children placed in special education programs for children in ECD programs; 5)Increase in measures of school readiness for children in ECD programs (median effect size: +0.34).
  
  

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  CDC. 2002. Community interventions to promote healthy social environments: Early childhood development and family housing: A report on recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Centers for Disease Control. MOrbity and Mortality Weekley 51(RR01);1-8. Available at: HYPERLINK "http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5101a1.htm" http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5101a1.htm