The study, the latest in the Effective Pre-School and Primary Education Project (EPPE), showed achievement in both maths and English by the age of 11 was greater where a child had attended a good quality pre-school. However, children who went to poor quality pre-schools showed no difference in outcomes to children who had not been to pre-school at all. And children who went to average quality pre-schools showed no difference in outcomes in English to children who...