Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Educational researchers have produced a comprehensive collection of studies that clearly demonstrates a direct relationship between play activities and early academic skill development.
2. Children from low-income families are more likely than children in more affluent families to attend early education programs.
3. If children fall behind in the early years, later remediation techniques will be sufficient to make up the difference.
4. The Common Core State Standards' philosophy and teaching principles have more in common with play-based learning than educational practices of the recent past.
5. Young children are capable of accurately identifying group membership on the basis of physical features.
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. True
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