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Jumpstart

Jumpstart

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Jumpstart

Jumpstart is working toward the day every child in America enters kindergarten prepared to succeed. College students serve as Corps Members in local Atlanta preschools to provide language, literacy, and social-emotional programming for preschool children from under-resourced communities.

KEY FACTS

In low-income neighborhoods, children start kindergarten 60% behind their peers from more affluent communities.

Because of Jumpstart, 91% of children made language and literacy gains as measured by a teacher observation tool.

97% of Corps Members are Satisfied with their involvement in Jumpstart

Jumpstart Corps members lead exciting and highly engaging sessions designed to help preschool students develop their language and literacy skills.  This experience can be transformative not only for the preschool student but also the Corps member as well.

Julius Cave, Program Director 

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Consecutive years that research awards have exceeded $100 million.

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Results from a recent comparison study found that Jumpstart children make 1.5x greater gains in important literacy skills, as compared to those who don’t receive the Jumpstart program.

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