PODCAST: ‘If you change one child’s life, you can change a whole history’
- April 13, 2016
- / Ron Stallcup
- / education
“If you want to make an impact, you can’t try to make an impact on 10 things. You pick one,” Quint Studer said in an interview on News Talk 1370 WCOA’s “Pensacola Speaks.”
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The one thing that Studer has picked is early childhood learning. The Studer Community Institute’s research has found that one-third of Escambia County children are not ready when they enter kindergarten, about a thousand students per year.
“Then 22 percent of the kids that enter kindergarten are so far behind, they’ll never catch up, which leads to a lower graduation rate, which leads to lower wages, lower job talent, higher crime, and less home value,” said Studer.
He believes that the healthcare providers can start the process when they met with the mothers and their babies.
“We have to get the brain development going from the beginning,” he said. “The beauty about it is the science shows that it can be done.”
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