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A new report from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child calls for a "significant shift in the way we conceive, and evaluate policies and programs" in order to "increase the effects for all children" and "unlock greater impacts for society."
One key part of that is "intentionally incorporating flexibility into the core architecture of all early childhood policies and services would offer tremendous promise for increased program effectiveness and larger impacts at scale," the report says.
Specifically, the council wants to focus more on the health and well-being of 3- and 4-year-olds and less on the financial and emotional well-being of infants and 4-year-olds.
The report looks at "within-group variations and between-group differences" and finds that children of color are more likely to be low-income and less likely to have access to high-quality early childhood care and education, the New York Times reports.
The report also calls for programs to focus on the physical and social needs of 3- and 4-year-olds and less on the financial and emotional needs of infants and 4-year-olds.
The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics tells the Times that the report is a "step in the right direction," but "there's a lot of work to be done."
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