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Knowledge Universe® overview

• Before- and after-school programs in partnership with elementary schools

• Over 400 programs in 15 states and DC

• Serving approximately 18,000 children

• Employer-sponsored learning centers and back-up care

• Over 250 clients including 94 centers in 22 states and DC

• Serving approximately 11,000 children

• Partnerships with local and national businesses and government agencies

• Community based learning centers for children 6 weeks to 12 years

• Approximately 1,400 centers in 38 states

• Serving approximately 135,000 children including over 3,000 military families; About 1/3 receive third-party assistance

Knowledge Universe® is approaching 1000 nationally accredited centers.

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The state of America’s children

• One-third of children entering kindergarten lack the basic

language skills they need to learn to read

• 2013 NAEP test scores for 4th grade indicate that 32% of all 4th

graders are below basic in reading; 17% are below basic in

mathematics.

• Vulnerable students are roughly two years behind their more

advantaged peers

• 22% of American students fail to graduate high school on time,

the highest level since 1974

Sources: National Center for Education Statistics, 2007-2008; Nat’l Assessment of Educational Progress

2013 Nation’s Report Card; McKinsey & Company, "The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in

America's Schools“, 2009

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The critical time for language development

Source: C.A. Nelson (2000).

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In the US, an average child

from a:

• professional family hears

215,000 words per week;

• working class family hears

125,000 words per week;

• family receiving welfare

benefits hears 62,000

words per week.

Source: Hart & Risley, 1995

Impact of early language exposure

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Returns on investing in early childhood education

Source: Heckman and LaFontaine (2007)

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Knowledge Universe® state assessment data: Maryland results

83%

73%77%

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Composite Language/Literacy Mathematical Thinking Scientific Thinking

Percent "fully ready"MD KCLC KCLC >1 yr, Full-Time

Source: MMSR – Maryland Model for School Readiness Assessment

Results obtained from the 2010-2011 administration of the Work Sampling System ® to all incoming

kindergarten students in the state of Maryland

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Results from kindergarten readiness rates based on scores from the Florida Assessments for Instruction in

Reading (FAIR) and the Early Childhood Observation System (ECHOSTM )

Knowledge Universe® state assessment data: Florida results

74.4 77.3 80.1 78.9 82.5 82.9

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Early Learning Assessment: BRIGANCE®

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51.3

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53.1

39.6

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Percent

156 programs; approximately 1400 children in pre-post assessment in 2013-2014 school year showed

improvement vs norm group in all subscales (language, physical, academic/cognitive, self-help, social/emotional)

Total Performance Language Performance

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Dramatic growth of neuronal architecture from birth to two

years

Source: “The Pediatricians Role in Addressing Childhood Poverty”, David Keller.

Newborn 1 month 6 months 2 years

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Age Birth 2 6 4 8 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

The brain’s ability to change in

response to experience

Amount of effort

such change requires

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Per capita education spending on children in 2008, by age:

Federal and State/Local

Source: http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412676-How-Do-Public-Investments-in-Children-Vary-with-Age.pdf.

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25%

75%

High Quality Care

Low of Mediocre Quality Care

7%

93%

High Quality Care

Low of Mediocre Quality Care

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, DHHS. (2006). The NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD): Findings for Children up to Age 4 1/2 Years (05-4318). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Of those in center-based settings, about 75% were in poor or mediocre

quality child care

Of those in home-based settings, about 93% were in poor or mediocre

quality child care

Infants in Child Care

Home-basedchild care

Center-basedchild care

Every week in the United States, nearly 11 million children younger than age 5 whose mothers are working are in some type of child care arrangement.

On average, children spend 36 hours/week in child care. Child care is work support. Child care is early education.

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Above low income

52% Poor 25%

Near poor 23%

Children Under 6 in Poverty

Young Children in Poverty in America

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Estimated rate of return on human capital investment

Source: Heckman (2008) www.heckmanequation.org.

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Per Child Annual Federal and State/Local Spending on

Education and Early Care, by Age