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December 2007: Life Chances: The Case for Early Investment in Our Kids, Volume , Issue
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Pre-K Politics in the States
Kate Sheppard
Pennsylvania and Illinois have made early childhood education a priority. Can other states -- and Washington -- learn from their example?
Changing the Climate on Early Childhood
Lawrence Aber
The science of early childhood development is as persuasive as the science of global climate change. Today, both challenges urgently call for a transformative politics.
No Parent Left Behind
Tara McKelvey
Often, the most effective efforts to intervene in the lives of disadvantaged children start early -- or even before they are born.
From One Generation to the Next
Rucker C. Johnson
Poor health at birth is one key channel through which economic status is passed from parent to child. Smart policies can lift kids beyond the poverty of parents.
Nature, Nurture, and Destiny
David L. Kirp
The Bell Curve revisited: What science teaches us about heredity and environment.
All Our Children: An Introduction
Robert Kuttner
Social outlay for early childhood education is the best investment we can make in America's future.
Continuing the Investment
Sara Mead
Improvement can't stop at kindergarten. Top-notch "early education" must extend to 3rd grade -- and beyond.
Child-Care Pay, Child-Care Quality
Marcia K. Meyers
Decent early childhood education requires well-trained and compensated educators.
"Kids First" Politics, Round Two
Mark Schmitt
Progressives now have a chance to push a political agenda favoring investment in
children. What can the second wave of children's politics learn from the first?
A Movement Transformed
Susan Urahn
States have boldly advanced the cause of preschool in the last few years. Now, let's use growing support for pre-K to mobilize a national investment in early childhood.
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