I've long wondered if there was any long-term benefit to the expensive pre-school education many of us provide for our kids. Here's evidence from a long term randomized study that it helped even into the teen years.
"...intensive day care and education from 6 months of age until they left to enter first grade.
By age 5, the children in the program averaged an I.Q. of 110, compared with 83 for children in the control group. Even years later in adolescence, those children were still 10 points ahead in I.Q."
from the Op-Ed article
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/opinion/16kristof.html?em
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