- Very early care can have lasting effects on a person (at least through the age of 20).
- Several "model" day-care programs have been shown to have lasting positive impacts on children, including their performance in school. We have been unable to find a day care organization that can give convincing evidence that its activities can be expected to produce the same results that the best programs have. (More.)
- We do recommend the Nurse-Family Partnership which provides home-visit program that has extensive and encouraging evidence behind it.
In the abstract, we believe that either of these two types of programs has great potential to make a permanent, positive difference in people's lives. However, we have been unable to find a day-care program that we can have confidence in, while we are extremely impressed with the Nurse-Family Partnership.
We therefore recommend the
Nurse-Family Partnership for donors interested in helping to promote better early childhood care in the U.S. (note that Nurse-Family Partnership is a national organization).
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