Government-funded preschool left students worse off, new study finds

Published January 25, 2022 5:33pm ET



Students who attended state-funded preschools were more likely to have academic and behavioral struggles than their peers who did not attend those schools, a new study finds.

The study was published by the American Psychological Association in the academic journal Developmental Psychology and studied the academic and social outcomes of 2,990 students who attended state-funded preschools in Tennessee.

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