Analysis by NCES of enrollment rates for three- to five-year-olds in center-based programs or kindergartens during the 1990s yields somewhat higher rates.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

The Condition of Education 2006, a report published by the NCES, had our fourth graders scoring twelfth in the world in math skills, after such nations as Singapore, Latvia, and Hungary.

NPR: Seeking Solutions for the Nation's Broken Schools

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of Education reported that the proportion of U.S. children aged three to five who were enrolled in preprimary programs more than doubled between 1965 and 1990, and as shown in Figure 1, modest gains continued in the 1990s.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section