{"id":1922,"date":"2011-06-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/early-education-prevents-incarceration-peer-reviewed-research.html"},"modified":"2011-06-11T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T12:00:00","slug":"early-education-prevents-incarceration-peer-reviewed-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/early-education-prevents-incarceration-peer-reviewed-research.html","title":{"rendered":"Early education prevents incarceration &mdash;peer-reviewed research"},"content":{"rendered":"In ScienceDaily, 10 June 2011,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/06\/110609141556.htm\">\nLarge-Scale Early Education Linked to Higher Living Standards and Crime Prevention 25 Years Later<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/06\/110609141556.htm\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.hhh.umn.edu\/people\/images\/photos\/judy_temple.jpg\"><\/a>\nIn the study published June 9 in the journal Science, Reynolds and\nTemple (with co-authors Suh-Ruu Ou, Irma Arteaga, and Barry White)\nreport on more than 1,400 individuals whose well-being has been tracked\nfor as much as 25 years. Those who had participated in an early childhood\nprogram beginning at age 3 showed higher levels of educational attainment,\nsocioeconomic status, job skills, and health insurance coverage as well\nas lower rates of substance abuse, felony arrest, and incarceration than\nthose who received the usual early childhood services.\n<\/blockquote>\nAmong the detailed findings for the study group:\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n28 percent fewer abused drugs and alcohol; 21 percent fewer males alone\n<li>\n22 percent fewer had a felony arrest; the difference was 45 percent for children of high school dropouts\n<li>\n28 percent fewer had experienced incarceration or jail\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2011\/06\/08\/science.1203618\">\nthe journal article:\nArthur J. Reynolds, Judy A. Temple, Suh-Ruu Ou, Irma A. Arteaga, and\nBarry A. B. White. School-Based Early Childhood Education and Age-28\nWell-Being: Effects by Timing, Dosage, and Subgroups. Science, 9 June\n2011 DOI: 10.1126\/science.1203618<\/a>.\n<p>\nWe don&#8217;t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.\nInvest those tax dollars in education, instead.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In ScienceDaily, 10 June 2011, Large-Scale Early Education Linked to Higher Living Standards and Crime Prevention 25 Years Later In the study published June 9 in the journal Science, Reynolds and Temple (with co-authors Suh-Ruu Ou, Irma Arteaga, and Barry White) report on more than 1,400 individuals whose well-being has been tracked for as much [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1113,15,289,178],"tags":[4116,2153,77,8705,1900,8701,8730,727,7,8758],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cca","category-education","category-science","category-vlcia","tag-addiction","tag-children","tag-drugs","tag-education","tag-felony","tag-georgia","tag-incarceration","tag-jail","tag-lowndes-county","tag-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-v0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}