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Duke University releases North Carolina pre-k attendance study

J. Christopher Watkins, MA, MBA
Friday, November 18th, 2016

Duke University released research showing that North Carolina’s investment in public pre-K programs led to better outcomes for its students. The findings seem to contradict those released last year by Vanderbilt University researchers about Tennessee’s public pre-K programs. That study’s authors concluded that by third grade, the students who attended pre-K actually fared worse academically. Read about the Duke University study at

http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/tn/2016/11/16/north-carolina-just-countered-tennessees-findings-on-pre-k-fadeout-heres-the-difference-according-to-researchers/

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J. Christopher Watkins, MA, MBA
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