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It Pays Off to Invest in Early Education, Says Nobel Economist Who Boosts Kids' IQs

 

The Baby College program at Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone is trying to foster exactly this same kind of notion: enriched parenting, providing children with encouragement and creating early environments promoting cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills. Just something basic like reading to the child on a regular basis, a very simple human activity that many of these disadvantaged kids don't get, can have payoffs, in terms of IQ.

 

                ===> Very interesting, check it out... <====