{"id":1447,"date":"2014-10-03T05:47:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T05:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2014-10-07T04:16:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T04:16:44","slug":"better-educational-outcomes-start-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2014\/10\/03\/better-educational-outcomes-start-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Better educational outcomes: Start early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #494949\">Centre Director Professor Frank Oberklaid&#8217;s blog post on\u00a0improving\u00a0the children&#8217;s long term outcomes has recently featured on Open Forum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #494949\">In the\u00a0post, he says &#8220;There is a social gradient for poor school readiness; children from disadvantaged families and communities have a significantly increased rate of problems. This can be explained by the science of brain development. A robust body of research points to the importance of the early years in establishing the trajectory for life long outcomes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #494949\">Read the full blog post\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openforum.com.au\/content\/better-educational-outcomes-start-early\">Better educational outcomes: Start early<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #494949\">More information:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #494949\">Watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2014\/09\/16\/online-forum-putting-a-value-on-early-childhood-education-and-care-in-australia\/\">online forum<\/a>:\u00a0Putting a value on early childhood education and care in Australia<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Read the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1kVrGE2\">Policy Brief<\/a>: The future of early childhood education and care services in Australia<\/li>\n<li>Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/ccch\/about_us\/Early_Childhood\/\">Brain Builders<\/a>, an animation explaining the science behind early brain development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent blog post, Professor Frank Oberklaid explains why the early years are critical for determining life long outcomes and why it&#8217;s biologically and economically more effective to get it right early on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5937],"tags":[11947,11949,5965,11952,8475],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-brain-development","tag-early-childhood-development","tag-early-childhood-education-and-care","tag-frank-oberklaid","tag-quality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}