Government bid to reshape childhood
Nursery places for two-year-olds in plan
Government research shows the level of parental engagement in learning is more important in determining a child's educational achievement than social class, family size or the parent's own academic attainment. Ministers may also expand parent support advisers who work to provide more effective connections between schools and disaffected parents.
Children as young as two are to be offered free nursery care in a government drive to intervene in the lives of disadvantaged children at the very earliest stages of their development.
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of
thought.
Bertrand A. Russell (1872-1970) English philosopher,
mathematician, and writer.
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