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'Class divide at age three'

By Laura Marcus, Nursery World, 13 June 2007

Children from disadvantaged families are an average of ten months behind those from the middle classes in terms of cognitive development at the age of three, according to a new study....

Children from disadvantaged families are an average of ten months behind those from the middle classes in terms of cognitive development at the age of three, according to a new study. The research follows up the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and notes how 16,000 children are developing at the age of three between 2003 and 2005. The initial MCS, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, interviewed...

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