The Connection Strategy

Young people growing up in tough urban neighborhoods are least well served by the current [education] system. Too often, they are consigned to schools that fail them systematically: fail to keep them safe, to challenge them to learn at high levels, to enable them to develop a vision of possibility for themselves in the world beyond their neighborhoods.

The state of Georgia set the standard for the nation by providing universal access to quality preschool experiences for four-year-olds, and Gideons has provided prekindergarten programs for many years. Families who are involved with their young children’s learning are more likely to stay engaged when their children reach school age.