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Early child care linked to increases in vocabulary, some problem behaviors in fifth and sixth grades
03-26-2007 · EurekAlert!The most recent analysis of a long-term NIH-funded study found that children who received higher quality child care before entering kindergarten had better vocabulary scores in the fifth grade than did children who received lower quality care.
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