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POPSEarly intervention works This study, out of UNC, found that early intervention BEFORE children reached school age had impact well beyond the first years of school.
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POPSVictor McKusick, 86, Dies; Medical Genetics Pioneer As a child, he had planned to become a minister. Then, at 15, he developed a spreading streptococcal infection of his arm and had to spend 10 weeks in a hospital while receiving a sulfa drug, one of the first antibiotics. That experience led him to medicine.
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POPSEarlier intervention is more potent If parent education begins when a child reaches school age, it is remediation. Engaging parents before birth and in the early years pays the highest dividends in children's achievement, attitudes and behavior
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POPSHarvard's finding: focus on parents The Harvard Family Research Project named the primary implication of the First 5 California initiative as supporting family literacy and parenting education to ensure school readiness.