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Category Archives: Early childhood programs
Universal public services that are redistributive and productive are the key to reducing income inequality
Eduardo Porter, a reporter for the New York Times, has an excellent recent column that summarizes some of the evidence for how government can effectively have large effects in reducing income inequality. His column builds on the research of sociologist … Continue reading
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Why education is important, and early childhood education salaries
The statistics for this blog reveal that by far the top two “search terms” that lead to this blog are variations on the following: “Why education is important”; “early childhood education salary”. I suspect these search terms mostly come from … Continue reading
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Boosting the recovery and long-run economic growth through job-creation incentives for the long-term unemployed, and early education investments
The Congressional Budget Office recently released a report exploring why this economic recovery from the recession trough has been unusually slow. As the report shows, as of the second quarter of 2012, 3 years after the Great Recession’s trough in … Continue reading
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What works to reduce income inequality?
Lane Kenworthy has an excellent recent essay on what the U.S. can do to increase equality of opportunity. (Kenworthy is a well-known sociologist at the University of Arizona, who has written several insightful books on issues of poverty and income … Continue reading
My TEDx talk on why early childhood programs are key to local economic development
My recent TEDx talk is now posted on YouTube. In 15 minutes, this talk summarizes my argument for why early childhood programs can build stronger local economies. It summarizes some of the key points from my book Investing in Kids. … Continue reading
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The limits of later interventions for disadvantaged students, and the case for early childhood programs
A recent paper by Nuria Rodriguez-Planas presents discouraging information on the long-term results of a program to help at-risk high school students. (The full paper requires subscription access to the journal, but working paper versions of many of the results … Continue reading
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New York Times magazine article on Kalamazoo Promise
Journalist Ted Fishman’s article on the Kalamazoo Promise (see previous blog post for description of the Promise) appears in the September 16 Sunday magazine of the New York Times. The article can be found here. The article describes the many … Continue reading
Effects of the Kalamazoo Promise
The Upjohn Institute website recently posted a working paper of mine, co-authored with my colleague Marta Lachowska, on the Kalamazoo Promise. Our working paper examines the immediate effects of the Kalamazoo Promise on student achievement and behavior in high schools. … Continue reading
U.S. lags in international comparisons of pre-school enrollment and public investment
OECD recently released its 2012 edition of Education at a Glance, which compares education statistics across leading industrial countries. (OECD stands for Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. It was originally set up to help administer the Marshall Plan. It … Continue reading
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U.S. job growth and education jobs
The latest U.S. job growth figures, released this morning (September 7, 2012) by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, continued to show positive growth, but at an insufficient rate to boost employment rates and labor market conditions. If we focus … Continue reading
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