Getting
a head start is always the best thing a person can do. A head start allows
people to stay on top of their project, schedule, and even life. In Nicholas D.
Kristof’s opinion article, Do We
Investing in Preschool or Prison?, it is discussed on how supplying better
education to children ages 0 to 5 will create a better future for the kids. In
the intro, Kristof mentions how congress is often compared with pre-K, which
may seem negative, actually creates a sense of hope. He addresses the idea that
children who have a head start with early education are less likely to be held
back or diagnosed with a learning disability. He also mentions how poorer children are more likely to not
receive the proper education needed to give them the jump-start into schooling.
Kristof
wrote this article with the intension of showing his readers the importance of
early childhood education and how it is becoming a more prevalent topic in the
government. It’s a Call to action
in order to display the positive effects of educating children at a young age.
He mentions how even “President Obama called in his State of the Union address for such a national
initiative”.
The
audience of this piece is the government and anyone with young children between
the ages of 0 and 5. He targets these individuals in particular because they
are the ones who can make the most impact.
By
using statistics showing government support of early education which is“ from
84 percent of Democrats and 60 percent of Republican” and presenting how poor families
who use the Nurse-Family Partnership program create “a 59 percent reduction in
child arrests at age 15 among those who had gone through the program”. I
believe that Kristof’s use of statistics made his article more appealing and
informative to reader, which overall allows him to achieve his purpose and show
his readers the importance of early childhood education.
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