Children are the future of our nation.
We can all agree that our youngest children deserve a strong start in life. So why have we made it so hard for parents, caregivers, and communities to provide the safe, secure, and responsive environments all our youngest children need to thrive?
Children's experiences during their first five years are more consequential than we ever thought. Neuro-synaptics connections are occurring inside a child's brain at age 0-3 at a rate of 700 a second. What happens in that 36 month period is important.
The best investment America can make is in Early Childhood Education. Making sure these kids start healthy and ready to learn. Science has demonstrated that a child's earliest experiences are vital to building the foundation for lifelong individual success.