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Closing the Opportunity Gap for Young Children
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Closing the Opportunity Gap for Young Children
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Many young children in the United States are thriving and have
access to the conditions and resources they need to grow up
healthy. However, a substantial number of young children face more
challenging conditions such as: poverty; food insecurity; exposure
to violence; and inadequate access to health care, well-funded
quality schools, and mental health care. In many cases, the
historical origins of unequal access to crucial supports for
children's physical, emotional, and cognitive development are
rooted in policies that intentionally segregated and limited
various populations' access to resources and create opportunity
gaps that intertwine and compound to affect academic, health, and
economic outcomes over an individual's life course and across
generations. Closing the Opportunity Gap for Young Children,
identifies and describes the causes, costs, and effects of the
opportunity gap in young children and explores how disparities in
access to quality educational experiences, health care, and
positive developmental experiences from birth through age eight
intersect with key academic, health, and economic outcomes. The
report identifies drivers of these gaps in three key
domains?education, mental health, and physical health?and offers
recommendations for policy makers for addressing these gaps so that
all children in the United States have the opportunity to thrive.
In addition, the report offers a detailed set of recommendations
for policy makers, practitioners, community organizations, and
philanthropic organizations to reduce opportunity gaps in
education, health, and social-emotional development. Table of
Contents Front Matter Summary 1 Introduction 2 Opportunity Gaps in
Early Care and Education Experienced by Children from Birth to
Pre-K 3 Opportunity Gaps in the Education Experienced by Children
in Grades K3 4 Opportunity Gaps in the Physical Health and Health
Care Experienced by Young Children and Their Parents 5 Opportunity
Gaps in the Social-Emotional Development, Well-being, and Mental
Health Experienced by Young Children 6 The Economic Costs of the
Opportunity Gap 7 Research, Policy, and Practice: Contexts and
Efforts to Address Opportunity Gaps 8 Key Conclusions and
Recommendations APPENDIX A APPENDIX B APPENDIX C COMMITTEE MEMBER
AND STAFF BIOSKETCHES
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