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Category Archives: Early childhood program design issues
Pre-k quality and “process quality”
What ultimately matters to preschool quality is what goes on in the classroom, between teacher and child. This makes intuitive sense, and is also backed by research. Several studies indicate that preschool achievement gains are higher if more classroom time … Continue reading
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Pre-k quality and class size
One feature of pre-k programs that can “easily” be changed by public policy is class size. When I say class size can be changed “easily”, I mean that it can be changed with a simple to implement change in law … Continue reading
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Pre-k quality and teacher quality
Many aspects of pre-k programs affect their quality. “Quality” in turn affects the magnitude of economic development benefits for a state or local economy. I’ll be exploring this important issue of pre-k quality in several blog posts. One of the … Continue reading
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The Heckman Equation and the relative difficulty of human capital investments
Ezra Klein links to a New York Times article by James Warren about Nobel prize-winning James Heckman’s arguments for greater early childhood investments. (Full disclosure: Professor Heckman has written a favorable blurb for my book Investing in Kids, part of … Continue reading
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How hard is it to achieve quality on a large-scale in pre-K programs?
Several prominent education and political bloggers have recently argued that implementing high-quality pre-K on a large scale is not a “proven” solution, but rather is hard to do. Kevin Carey of Education Sector argued on December 6 that high-quality pre-k … Continue reading
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