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Category Archives: Early childhood programs
Investing in Kids now ready for shipping!
The Upjohn Institute Press now has both hardback and paperback copies of my book investing in Kids available. You can order online at the Institute’s website. The paperback goes for $20. A great value for a book of 415 pages! … Continue reading
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If public investment in pre-k is needed, who should be doing the investing?
Ezra Klein has posted a nice column that summarizes some long-term issues facing the U.S. The essence of his argument is that in addition to closing the budget deficit, we need to make additional productive investments, and to identify such … Continue reading
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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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What might early childhood education do for Chicago?
In the New York Times article by James Warren on Professor James Heckman’s ideas on early childhood education, Mr. Warren suggests that Professor Heckman’s ideas “might have benefited mayoral candidates concerned about Chicago’s public schools performance”. Warren goes on to … 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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Supply-side early childhood economics
Early childhood programs can be described as “supply side” programs because they improve local economic development by improving the quantity and quality of local labor supply. Many non-economists are unaware that both conservative and liberal economists are in some sense … Continue reading
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The importance of “soft skills”
John Funk, in his blog at Topics in Early Childhood Education, reminds us that for a child to learn in the preschool classroom, we must first address certain fundamentals: “security, association, belonging, dignity, hope, power, enjoyment and competence”. We can … Continue reading
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Sports Stadiums vs. Other Business Incentives vs. Early Childhood Programs
Irene Sege, Communications Director for Strategies for Children, recently wrote a blog post at their blog Eye on Early Education on the economic development benefits of sports stadiums vs. early childhood programs. Sports stadiums are probably one of the least … Continue reading
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