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A Better Start: Why Classroom Diversity Matters in Early Education

February 2019
Jeanne L. Reid and Sharon Lynn Kagan

The field of early childhood education is experiencing unprecedented public investment accompanied by increasing expectations for enhanced child outcomes. To achieve such outcomes, policymakers must consider the socioeconomic and racial/ethnic composition of children’s classrooms as an important component of preschool quality.

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