The low-cost, Save the Children home-visiting program that actor/advocate Jennifer Garner and journalist Nicholas Kristof explored last night in the new PBS documentary A Path Appears is showing dramatic results in many of the nation’s poorest communities. Although research has consistently shown that most U.S. children living in poverty fall far behind other children by the time they reach school, Save the Children’s results show that 80 percent of its young, at-risk participants score at or above the national average on pre-literacy tests. “We know that children with access to high-quality early education are more likely to graduate, go on to college and do well economically,” said Kathy Spangler, Vice President of Save the Children’s U.S. Programs. “What our results show is that even the most-at risk children in America can succeed when these efforts start early enough.”

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