Word: preschooling
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Parents may have a new reason to feel good about sending their children to preschool this fall. According to a study in this month's Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention journal, children who attend day care or nursery school for at least one year before kindergarten are about 36% less likely than those not in preschool to develop Hodgkin's lymphoma as young adults. The study's scientists, from the Harvard School of Public Health, Yale University and Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, suggest that early contact with other kids' germs and exposure to common childhood infections help the immune system mature...
...seniors who were in need or whether to help kids," Conover says. The consensus was that local agencies dedicated to helping children from birth to age 6 were the best investment. That decision was based largely on research from two respected sources: the Carolina Abecedarian Study and the Perry Preschool Project, both of which demonstrated the long-term value of helping younger children. The board also wanted to give to organizations that had a proven track record but that didn't receive as much publicity and funds as some of the more high-profile ones...
...House claims he is. Now that the primaries are over, he?s positioning himself firmly in the Bill Clinton wing of the Democratic party, where fiscal discipline matters more than big spending. Kerry even dropped some of the more costly programs he had proposed during the primaries, like universal preschool. He?s saying to voters: you can trust me with the cookie...
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