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Jennifer Garner And Save The Children Feature On New Documentary

Jennifer Garner And Save The Children Feature On New Documentary

by The Daily Eye Team February 5 2015, 2:22 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 46 secs

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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Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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