Obama: Here’s why Business Leaders Support Pre-K
President Barack Obama, who has been pushing a major investment in early childhood education, provides some more details in an interview with Fortune Magazine about why corporate leaders — who have been something of a target in the sinking economy — will advocate for investing in education. “We cannot ignore the fact that our education [...]
More on Stossel: “Universal Pre-K: ‘This Whole Thing Is a Scam’” and the Response from Pre-K Now
EarlyStories blogged yesterday about ABC News’ partnership with a libertarian foundation to produce a so-called “news” report that, guess what, espouses libertarian anti-government ideas. The item was based on a Reason.tv video on the same topic. The program segment (to air tonight) mainly features Mia Levi, the operator of a string of private preschools who [...]
Long Term Investments (Short Term Crisis)
Given the news of the past two weeks one would expect a group calling itself the “Partnership for America’s Economic Success” to talk about credit availability, productivity or market regulation (or deregulation.) But as radio documentarian Emily Hanford reported this past weekend, the partnership of business leaders and foundations actually is devoted to expanding investment [...]
Speaking of Economic Return…
Early Ed Watch has two entries highlighting new analyses of economic returns from investments in early childhood education. Here and here. Have I said recently what a valuable resource Early Ed Watch is?
Lots of Food for Thought (and a Juicy Back-to-School Story) in New Data on Chicago Preschool Study
The last time Arthur Reynolds of the University of Minnesota et. al. reported on the long-term effects of the Chicago Child-Parent Center programs the former preschoolers in the study were in their teens. That was in 2001 and the study results got good play in the New York Times and elsewhere, admitting the CPCs into [...]
Two editorials promoting pre-k in UT and MI
Nicole Christian wrote a compelling editorial in the Detroit Free Press this past weekend, arguing that even though strong evidence for the effectiveness of high quality pre-kindergarten eminated from the state, the state’s political leaders have not built on that legacy. She acknowledges that the state is struggling economically, as the auto industry tries to [...]
What the School Choice and UPK Crowds Have in Common
preschool, prekindergarten, vouchers, Sara Mead, Education Sector, Quick and the Ed, child care, mixed delivery, school choice
Pre-K as Economic Engine (D.C. Remix)
The Washington Post picked up on a report from the advocacy group Pre-K for All DC that says (no surprise) free pre-kindergarten would more than repay its cost. The actual study is not yet up on the group’s Web site. But a quote from the Post story indicates that its authors tried to calculate the [...]
A Job for the Government
Joel Waldfogel, a business prof at the Wharton School, bases a commentary on Slate on the James Heckman/Dmitri Masterov analysis of the economic returns of preschool from high quality programs serving the disadvantaged. He says government programs are needed to make up for the weakness of many families, which makes them unable to function as [...]
Business Interest in Early Ed Explained
In the Hartford Business Review, reporter Diane Weaver Dunne examines the partnership between Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell and two of the state’s top advocates of economic development. The story also traces the evolution of business interest in early education nationally, going back to the work of Art Rolnick, an economist with the Federal Reserve [...]
