Although a large majority of preschool-age children in the
United States attend some type of early education setting, Latino
children and children of immigrants attend at a lower rate than
do children of nonimmigrant parents.
This is unfortunate, since
children who attend preschool during the year before kindergar
ten have an advantage in reading and math over their peers who
are not enrolled in center-based care.
Many children who are
learning English as a second language while they are gaining early
proficiency in their home language are therefore disproportionately missing academic benefits that attending preschool
provides