Summary: The video shows children learning and developing in preschool while an audio voiceover discusses how birth to age five are the most important years for learning. The children need high quality preschool to develop important social skills that children need in their adult life to obtain a job.
Topic: zero to five
Category: Business institutional
Location: http://www.edpro.com/advocacy/advocacy.shtml
Support:
Unnamed studies
Preschool teachers
The support included in this video represents unnamed studies that claim preschool is important for children in their adult life, teachers agreeing that preschool is important for development and teachers illustrating how they foster that development.
Audience and Agenda: The video is intended to be a resource and tool for advocates to use to persuade others to support the universal preschool movement. It is available for all to see and viewers are encouraged to share. The edpro.com, funded by proceeds from video sales, has been making educational advocacy videos since 1982. The number of viewers of this site is unknown.
Usefulness: This source is useful to familiarize people with the preschool program. It overviews benefits of preschool and shows actual teachers working and advocating for preschool. The interviews with the teachers make the argument relatable instead of just facts that will be forgotten. Also brought up in the video is the need for high quality preschool which supports the statements made in the book Reinventing Early Childhood Education and Care. The speakers in the video also discuss the importance of developing social skills in order to become contributing successful members of the workforce. This statement is supported by findings in the Perry Preschool Study mentioned in the Youtube video interview with David Kirp and his book The Sandbox Investment. The video is available for use in presentations.
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