ON ‘SCIENCE’
Milan , April 30, 2014 – 10:22
The Carolina Abecedarian project dates back to 1972, when a group of researchers from North Carolina, United States, decided to investigate the potential benefits of an educational intervention in the early years of childhood solid to reduce inequalities between children from wealthy families and those from poor families. The premise is that, since then, we had realized that children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds landed in the first year of primary school already behind the other, a disadvantage that normally carry with them forever. Research today shows that 3-year-old children who come from wealthy families have a vocabulary three times richer than those who belong to modest economic environments; 4 have heard 30 million more words. For the experiment, a group of children from poor families was divided into a completely random into two groups: the experimental children were cared for five years, 6-8 hours per day, five days a week, from less than two years of age, with educational activities based on the game and that emphasized the learning of language and exposure to its wealth. Decades later, these children showed cognitive abilities more developed, the best routes and academic achievements and professional.
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“Carolina Abecedarian»
Better physical health
There was a possibility that the researchers had not anticipated at the time: that the treatment ‘privileged’ reserved for the children of Abecedarian would make them grow into adults very healthier, also from the point of view of physical health. It ‘just what happened instead: 42 years later, one study just published in Science notes that the education programs of quality early childhood have been shown to have substantial results not only in reducing crime and increase in economic gains, but that the children assigned to the experimental group, particularly males, thirty years later have a significant reduction in the risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Less risk of high pressure, the “good” cholesterol and lower rates of obesity.
bet Lille
Martine Aubry, mayor of Lille newly-elected for a third consecutive term, has made it a horse in the campaign: the French city in the country will pioneer of this method called “spectacular.” Lille has already experienced in some facilities, “Parler Child ‘educational facing the same age group that immerses children in a” bath of language “to stimulate it to its full potential. With Abecedarian means taking a step further, with a reception in crèches and strongly individualized and time to help every child in school success and social integration. In France Abecedarian was recently promoted from the study of an influential think-tank Progressive, Terra Nova, which is pressure to make this investment in the future of the children is plugged in public policy. In Quebec, where it is called “Jeux d’enfants” is a generalized method.
opportunity for all
It’s not just the French-speaking world watching with great interest in these new developments Abecedarian: United States, where President Obama pushes for the “high-quality preschool is enjoyed by every single child in America,” rumors are initiated to raise to point out that effective education, publicly funded, should start well before the age of 4 years. And who knows, soon you will not face a little thought to Abecedarian even in England, where a few days ago he thundered Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of school inspectors of the country: too many crèches and fail to prepare children to deal with the elementary schools, and the losers are especially the poorest children, of whom more than two-thirds come on pews unprepared, “do not know how to hold a pen in hand, they have poor language and communication skills.” “There is nothing of the inevitable link between poverty and failure,” continued the inspector, who asks a more formal and structured education from the nests. And the British government seems to agree.
April 30, 2014 | 10:22
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