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Early Childhood Education Early Childhood Education is one of the most important phases in a child’s life. There is an enormous amount of research proving that when children attend high quality early childhood programs, they have better chances of succeeding in school, going to college and “Learning starts in infancy, long before getting a higher paying job. Quality early childhood programs formal education begins, and continues provide children with the tools they need to learn social, throughout life. Recent research in behavioral, and learning skills at their own pace, in terms they can psychology and cognition demonstrates understand. how vitally important the early preschool years are for skill formation. It is essential that children have access and receive education that is Early learning begets later learning and appropriate for their age. At each developmental stage children early success breeds later success, just learn differently. For instance, toddlers (18 months to 3 years) need as early failure breeds later failure” to learn to trust the adults around them and become autonomous. (Heckman, 2000, p.3.) For preschoolers and kindergarteners, who are at the stage of making choices and taking initiative, it is important to engage in activities in which they learn to think critically, communicate about their choices both verbally and in writing (through drawing, writing their names, copying words, etc). When children have attended quality early childhood programs, including pre-kindergarten, they enter Kindergarten with the skills they need to have high academic achievement throughout their school career. Benefits