So how about just one little tweak to put a lot more kids in preschool and full-day kindergarten? The researchers at the Utah Foundation have found that Colorado’s embrace of early education is paying off in higher test scores. Where Utah once topped Colorado in National Assessment o Educational Progress tests, it’s now Colorado above Utah.
The two states are more similar than their politics indicate. Colorado spends about $2,000 more per student, but both are well below the national average. They also have somewhat similar demographics – predominantly white with fast growing Latino populations. Both states saw their test scores fall over the first decade of the century, but Colorado’s have bounced back some.
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