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Preschool, Is It Good Enough ?

Golden ages being a good time for parents to start educate their children and preschool being a good way to reach this goals. Preschool is a common things these days, because now almost all of parents who has child in golden ages would like to enroll their children to preschool. Preschool or early childhood education is a good beginning for children to entered school in the future and children wouldn’t be shock once they entered school because they have start to learn from preschool. Preschool has a really good goals for each children who entered, but is it the impact as good as the goals?

Barnet (1985, 1995, and 2008) mention that a studies showing a positive impact of early childhood education [or preschool] programs on [children] future development of individuals. That statement means preschool has a good impact because it’s good for children future development. Meanwhile, another studies even suggesting potential null or even negative effects [for children who entered preschool] (Lipsey, Farran, & Hofer, 2015).

Preschool helped children to gain more knowledge that really useful for children future academic. Gain knowledge from early education wouldn’t make student get shock once they start to study in future school. Moreover, this condition sometimes make children think so much than they have do before and it can being a factor children won’t to learn more at home.

Another reason why early childhood education was good because with preschool children can have a lot of friends to studying and playing. Because almost of golden ages children actually more likes to play than study.

Result of a research entitled “School-Based Early Childhood Education and Age-28 Well-Being: Effects by Timing, Dosage, and Subgroups” has shown that the preschool group [children] had significantly higher levels of educational attainment for three of four select outcomes, which means preschool give a good outcomes for children at that time and also for children future.

For children better future, children should have academic and intellectual skills, and preschool is one of a way to start children academic and intellectual skills improvement. Daley and Carlson (2009; Innocenti, 2005) said, “Studies that examine outcomes for students who placed early and then successfully transition out of special education find that these children continue to increase their gains in academic and intellectual functioning across later development”.

Parents always want to give the best things for their child since their child was really young and some parents start it with enrolled they children to preschool to reach this goals. Because early childhood education has many good impact even though there’s also bad impact, it still a good chance for parents to make a better future life for their children.

References

1.        The Added Impact of Parenting Education in Early Childhood Education Programs: A Meta-Analysis

2.        Long-term effects of public early childhood education on academic achievement in Chile

3.        School-Based Early Childhood Education and Age-28 Well-Being: Effects by Timing, Dosage, and Subgroups

4.        Impact of North Carolina’s Early Childhood Initiatives on Special Education Placements in Third Grade