NIEER Summarizes Pre-K Research
March 18, 2013 by Irene Sege
Photo: Micaela Bedell for Strategies for Children
Ever since President Obama’s call for universal preschool, there’s been a lot of talk about the research on the benefits of high-quality early education. With the talk come questions. Decades of well-regarded research document the positive effects of high-quality early education, but are advocates overselling it? What about the criticism from opponents of the president’s proposal? W. Steven Barnett, who is director of the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University, provides some answers in “Getting the Facts Right on Pre-K and the Presidents Pre-K Proposal.”
“Public policy is best advanced based on impartial analysis of all the available evidence. The Obama administration’s new universal pre-k proposal comports