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Category Archives: Early childhood program design issues
Do early childhood programs represent too much government intervention into the role of parents?
I’m continuing to provide brief answers to questions I have received when I have made presentations on early childhood programs. Today’s question is: “Do early childhood programs represent too much government intervention into the role of parents?” Some voters and … Continue reading
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How does the short-run intervention of early childhood programs lead to such large long-run effects?
I’m trying this month to provide brief answers to some questions that have come up when I’ve given presentations on early childhood programs. Today’s question: “How does the short-run intervention of early childhood programs lead to such large long-run effects?” … Continue reading
Accountability systems need to improve quality, not make things worse
The New York Times op-ed by Helen Ladd and Ed Fiske that I linked to the other day was based in part on a much longer recent paper by Helen Ladd. That paper is well worth reading. Professor Ladd reviews … Continue reading
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State economic development policies: what works?
I delivered a speech about state economic development policies on November 30, 2011. The presentation was made in D.C. at the 19th Annual State Fiscal Policy Conference of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The text of my prepared … Continue reading
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Top 9 reasons why universal access to pre-K makes sense
I was recently asked to give some key reasons why pre-K systems with broad or even universal access make sense. Here are my top 9 reasons. Political sustainability. Systems that help income groups that comprise a majority of voters are … Continue reading
How do payoffs differ between early interventions and late interventions?
A recent paper, by Susan Dynarski, Joshua Hyman, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, has received some attention in the early education community, and elsewhere. The paper is entitled “Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree … Continue reading
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Does earlier intervention result in higher returns?
One intriguing figure in the new book, Childhood Programs and Practices in the First Decade of Life, examines the benefits per dollar of different early childhood and early school-age programs at different ages. (The figure is on p. 182, in … Continue reading
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How does preschool have long-run effects?
A recently published book has some interesting findings on the causal chain of events by which high-quality preschool education has long-run effects on adult outcomes. The book is “Childhood Programs and Practices in the First Decade of Life”. I recommend … Continue reading
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Consequences of reducing pre-K quality
One of my news alerts recently came across an interesting blog entry from Maureen Downey of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Her blog entry highlighted recent budget cuts to Georgia’s pre-K program, and their consequences. According to the blog entry, the … Continue reading
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Parenting programs are not a “cheap substitute” for expanding high-quality preschool
I recently testified about early childhood programs before a state legislative committee. One of the representatives asked a subsequent witness a question, whose gist was as follows: Wouldn’t it be better and cheaper to address parenting rather than spending all … Continue reading
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