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Study Finds U.S. Trailing in Preschool Enrollment

Education Week

The United States lags behind most of the world's leading economies when it comes to providing early-childhood education opportunities to young children despite improvements in recent years, according to a new study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.


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