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Category Archives: Early childhood program design issues
The potential of parenting programs, as well as pre-K programs
A recent report by the Center on Children & Families of the Brookings Institution has some useful information on parenting in the United States, and some useful research results for the HIPPY parenting program. The report is by Richard V. … Continue reading
The benefits of early childhood programs depend upon design
Melinda Wenner Moyer wrote a recent column in Slate on how U.S. day care affects kids. Her column provides a useful summary of the day care research. Day care has mixed effects relative to parental care: more positive if the … Continue reading
Pre-K benefits the middle-class as well as the poor in Boston
A recent study of Boston’s universal pre-K program provides additional evidence that pre-K programs have benefits greater than costs for children from middle-class families. This supplements the more extensive evidence that pre-K has high benefit-cost ratios for children from low-income … Continue reading
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Promising results for relatively time-intensive parenting program
A recent study of a parenting program in Jamaica for highly disadvantaged children has found strong evidence for large effects on adult earnings. The study was written by a large group of researchers, including Paul Gertler, James Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, … Continue reading
Experimental vs. non-experimental evidence on early childhood programs
A recent evaluation of Tennessee’s pre-K program found very mixed results. The report was done by Vanderbilt researchers Mark Lipsey, Kerry Hofer, Nianbo Dong, Dale Farran, and Carol Bilbrey. The program’s initial effects on academic achievement at the end of … Continue reading
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Pre-K teacher salaries, teacher quality and turnover, and outcomes for children
Marcy Whitebook, director of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California-Berkeley, has a useful brief article on the consequences of low pre-K teacher salaries for providing quality pre-K programs on a large scale. … Continue reading
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My recent appearance on HuffPost Live
On Wednesday, June 19, I participated in a video discussion of preschool on HuffPost Live. An archive of the approximately 25 minute discussion can be found here.
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Brookings article provides support for high benefit-cost ratios for state pre-K, but you wouldn’t know it from the article
In response to a reader request, I looked at a recent article on Obama’s preschool proposal, written by Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst of the Brookings Institution. Dr. Whitehurst is a child psychologist who previously directed the research arm of the … Continue reading
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Public radio interview about Michigan’s expansion of pre-K
I was recently interviewed by the local public radio station, WMUK, about the recent legislative agreement on the expansion of Michigan’s state-funded pre-K program, the Great Start Readiness Program. Governor Snyder’s proposal for expanded pre-K has now passed both houses … Continue reading
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Comments on Heckman book, “Giving Kids a Fair Chance”
Nobel prize-winning economist James Heckman has a recent (March 2013) short book, Giving Kids a Fair Chance. The book has a short essay (about 40 small pages) by Heckman, followed by comments on Heckman’s essay by 11 commentators with a … Continue reading
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