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Early Childhood Development and Education
Creating equal opportunity from the start
Strategic Approach
Early Learning and Development
The evidence is clear: Children who have had the benefit of high-quality early learning opportunities enter school ready to develop and thrive.
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Strategic Approach
Public Education
Quality public education and supporting programs are critical to fueling every person's potential, providing the foundation for lifelong success.
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Children are born learning. Before age three, a child’s brain is 80% the size of an adult. This period of time is widely believed to be the most active for neural connections, which are the foundation of learning.
The foundation subsidizes the opportunity for approximately 2,400 low-income children to attend center-based early learning programs year-round. Each year, thousands more children across Tulsa benefit from a wide array of home visiting, community-based parenting programs, pediatric practice supports and other efforts supporting planned pregnancies and healthy births.
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