{"id":458,"date":"2024-11-25T09:48:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/?p=458"},"modified":"2024-11-30T15:40:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T21:40:03","slug":"early-brain-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Early Brain Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\">85% of brain development occurs by age 3, yet most educational investments focus on ages 5 and up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-regular-font-size wp-elements-5aa04b7882f2eb4a1fa94740b3d7f443\">The greatest amount of brain growth occurs between birth and age five. In fact, by age 3, roughly 85% of the brain\u2019s core structure is formed. In contrast, the majority of our investments are made in the traditional education years of K-12, which begin at age five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>\u201cLifetime Effects: The High\/Scope Perry Preschool Study Through age 40.\u201d Ypsilanti, MI: High\/Scope Educational Research Foundation, 2005.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>85% of brain development occurs by age 3, yet most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literacy-statistics","tag-brain-literacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}