A new way to get every child ready for kindergarten | Claudia Miner

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🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Early education is critical to children's success -- but millions of kids in the United States still don't have access to programs that prepare them to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. Enter the UPSTART Project, a plan to bring early learning into the homes of children in underserved communities, at no cost to families. Education innovator Claudia Miner shares how UPSTART is setting four-year-olds up for success with 15 minutes of learning a day -- and how you can help. (This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)**

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features early education innovator Claudia Minor, recorded live at TED 2019.
0:08.5	This ambitious idea is part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.
0:16.6	Learn more at audaciousproject.org.
0:20.7	I'm an historian, and what I love about being an historian is Learn more at audacious project.org.
0:24.8	I'm an historian, and what I love about being an historian is it gives you perspective.
0:27.3	Today, I'd like to bring that perspective
0:29.3	to education in the United States.
0:32.4	About the only thing people can agree on
0:35.1	is the most strategic time for a child to start learning is early.
0:40.3	Over 50 years ago, there was a watershed moment in early education in the U.S. called Head Start.
0:47.3	Now, historians love watersheds because it makes it so easy to talk about what came before and what's happened since. Before Head Start, basically nothing.
0:57.0	With Head Start, we began to get our nation's most adverse children ready for school.
1:04.0	Since Head Start, we've made strides, but there are still 2.2 million children in the U.S. without access to early learning,
1:13.2	or more than half of the four-year-olds in the country.
1:16.9	That's a problem.
1:18.8	But the bigger problem is what we know happens to those children.
1:22.9	At-risk children who reach school without basic skills are 25% more likely to drop out, 40% more
1:30.3	likely to become teen parents, and 60% less likely to go to college. So if we know how important
1:37.3	early education is, why aren't all children getting it? There are barriers that the solutions
1:43.6	we've come up with to date
1:45.2	simply can't overcome.
1:48.0	Geography, think rural and remote.
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