Long-Awaited Vanderbilt Pre-K Study Finds Benefits Lacking

Nashville Public Radio reports:

A five-year study conducted on Tennessee’s voluntary pre-K program is leaving researchers scratching their heads.

Vanderbilt Peabody College professors followed a thousand students from pre-K through third grade and compared them to a control group who skipped pre-K. All of the students are considered economically disadvantaged.

Not only did students who missed pre-K catch up within a year or two. But researchers found, on the whole, students who attended pre-K fell behind their peers by the time they finished third grade.

“We’re pretty stunned looking at these data and have a lot of questions about what might be going on in the later grades that doesn’t seem to be maintaining, if not accelerating, the positive gains, professor Mark Lipsey, director of the Peabody Research Institute, said in a statement.

This study was highly anticipated by policy makers. Gov. Bill Haslam has said he was waiting for the results before deciding whether to expand pre-K in Tennessee.

Do you want to be a science denier by promoting pre-K with stolen money from taxpayers???