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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (245713)	2/26/2014 10:50:19 PM
From: Alex MG	Respond to of 542129

yes, we really need to "debate" whether educational spending on poor kids is productive yes, it might be better to just throw them in the garbage can, or put them to work in sweat factories Larry Kudlow will probably agree

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (245713)	2/27/2014 12:33:34 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542129

<<If we are going o increase educational spending for kids on welfare then we need to measure whether this is an effective use of the money.>> We have measured it. I posted a few days ago recent research conducted at Stanford university and columbia?, including brain scans that showed this: They have the proof of the need for a complex verbal environment if a child is going to develop to the optimum level. A poor two year old child operates at only 18 months compared to a rich two year child. At poor 5 year only operates at a 3 year old rich child. That is considered too large a gap for most poor kids to overcome. It results from the lack of sophisticated verbal exchange taking place in the home among the poor compared ot the rich. There is no way to change that except early childhood education where the young child can get adequate verbal interaction. The family or the culture are not going to change. Birth to five is a critical period as that is when most of the neural brain connections are being built. The child needs massive complex verbal stimulus. Poor people or cultures where they don't talk much or read to their kids are not going to change. How can they?? So society must step in and get the job done. This is the sort of thing conservatives/Republican's just never think about and why they bombard us with terrible policy. And why people should vote in liberals. We understand this stuff. Nixon vetoed free pre school in the 70's.