Borsuk: Early brain development is crucial to a child’s future. What will it take to close the prekindergarten gap?

Quoted: Suskind and Katherine Magnuson, director of the Institute on Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, keynoted the session.

Magnuson said, “Those inequalities that we see at 16, 17 or 18 are present when kids enter school. Those first five years forecast what comes later.”