Last year, Maryvale Prep opened its doors in the Maryvale neighborhood of West Phoenix. This charter school, a part of the Great Hearts Academies network, serves primarily low-income Hispanic students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade. Among the kindergartners at his school, Headmaster Mac Esau saw a major trait that divided the group: whether students had attended a pre-Kindergarten program. Only half of the initial kindergarten class attended any prior schooling. The students who had never been exposed to a school environment were, by comparison,...
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