Early Childhood
What is the Market Price of Daycare and Preschool?
Knowing what families of different income and educational levels are currently paying for daycare can inform policy debates over how much taxpayers should spend to help families afford it.
Early Childhood
EdStat: 48 Percent of Parents Support Testing Preschool Students
Even though controversy has sprung up around the new International Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study, our 2017 EdNext poll found that 48 percent of parents support requiring students in publicly funded preschool programs to take state tests.
Early Childhood
Adding Pre-K to Renaissance Charter School
What New York City's Pre-K For All initiative has meant for a charter school.
Early Childhood
Rigorous Preschool Research Illuminates Policy (and Why the Heckman Equation May Not Compute)
Let's avoid big and irrevocable bets on conclusions and recommendations that are far out in front of what a careful reading of the underlying evidence can support.
Early Childhood
Why the Federal Government Should Subsidize Childcare and How to Pay for It
There is broad public support for more government spending on childcare as long as that spending does not result in another unfunded entitlement that worsens the deficit
Early Childhood
In New York City, Mayor Bill De Blasio’s Initiatives Threaten to Widen the Achievement Gap
Mayor de Blasio has shown a good instinct for identifying the right targets—early childhood education and reading. But it’s hard to be encouraged that either he or his chancellor knows how to hit them.
Early Childhood
Pre-K and Charter Schools: Where State Policies Create Barriers to Collaboration
Why is it so difficult for America’s high-impact, “no-excuses” charter schools to participate in pre-K programs?
Early Childhood
Is a Massive New Set of Federal Regulations the Best Way to Reform Head Start?
Head Start is an example of sound impulses gone missing into the jungles of governmental extravagance and bureaucracy.
Early Childhood
Is It Quality Or Quantity That Counts?
Ah, January is upon us: The wind is howling, the thermometer is plummeting, and we are greeted by the nineteenth consecutive edition of Quality Counts, Education Week’s compilation of mostly useful data, analysis, rankings and commentaries.
Early Childhood
Pre-Kraziness
What is the benefit conferred by preschool if there’s no school after the pre?
