05689oam 22007214a 450 991032404790332120230803214202.00-88099-483-5(CKB)3710000000721094(EBL)4539981(OCoLC)907647688(SSID)ssj0001677816(PQKBManifestationID)16486837(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001677816(PQKBWorkID)12952015(PQKB)10738698(MiAaPQ)EBC4539981(MdBmJHUP)muse77192(EXLCZ)99371000000072109420150420d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrom Preschool to ProsperityThe Economic Payoff to Early Childhood Education /Timothy J. BartikKalamazoo, Michigan :W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research,2014.©2014.1 online resource (130 p.)WE focus seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-88099-482-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : What are early childhood education programs? ; What are the benefits from early childhood education? ; How can early childhood education affect the child's future life course? ; A proposal for early childhood education ; The plan of the book -- 2. What is the evidence on the earnings effects of high-quality early childhood education, and why should we believe it? : Why the research evidence for early childhood education is credible ; Random assignment studies ; Other long-term studies with good comparison groups: Head Start ; The Chicago Child-Parent Center Program ; Predicting long-term earnings effects from short-term test score effects ; Infant health and development program ; North Carolina's Smart Start Program, and more at four ; State and local pre-K programs: the regression discontinuity evidence ; Summary of the evidence -- 3. How do the adult earnings benefits of high-quality early childhood education compare to costs? : Future earnings versus present costs ; Parental earnings ; Are these effects large? ; Closing comments -- 4. Criticisms of the research evidence : Criticism 1: The evidence for early childhood education's benefits only comes from small and expensive experiments run a long time ago ; Criticism 2: Early childhood education is argued to be ineffective because the recent Head Start experiment has test score effects that quickly faded to statistical insignificance ; Criticism 3: Why haven't Oklahoma and Georgia, two states that have prominently adopted universal pre-K, been more obviously successful in improving test scores and other social indicators? ; Criticism 4: The recent Tennessee pre-K experiment shows that test score effects quickly fade, which raises questions about whether state pre-K programs are effective ; Concluding comments -- 5. How can early childhood education programs best be designed? : Quality of teacher-child interactions ; Class size and teacher credentials ; Middle-class children ; Program duration ; Earlier versus later interventions -- 6. Spillover benefits: how does early childhood education affect other groups than those families directly served by these programs? : Skill spillovers ; Peer effects in education ; Spillovers from reducing crime ; Government/taxpayer benefits ; Pre-K: the next generation ; Concluding comments -- 7. A proposed early childhood education strategy : Full-day universal pre-K for four-year-olds ; Targeted educare/abecedarian for all disadvantaged children ; Nurse family partnership for all disadvantaged first-time mothers ; Costs ; Aggregate benefits ; Accountability and quality improvement ; What level of government should be responsible for early childhood education? ; Concluding comments -- 8. Why early childhood education makes sense now: ECE's place in the ongoing struggle for broader economic opportunities : Labor supply and labor demand ; History matters ; The continuing argument over expanding educational access ; But why early childhood education? And why now? ; Doing the good we know how to do.This Bbook explores the economic payoffs to investment in early childhood education.WE focus series.Education, PreschoolEconomic aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst00903173Education, Preschoolfast(OCoLC)fst00903161Early childhood educationEconomic aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst00900607Early childhood educationfast(OCoLC)fst00900596EDUCATIONPreschool & KindergartenbisacshEducation, PreschoolUnited StatesEarly childhood educationUnited StatesEducation, PreschoolEconomic aspectsUnited StatesEarly childhood educationEconomic aspectsUnited StatesUnited StatesfastEducation, PreschoolEconomic aspects.Education, Preschool.Early childhood educationEconomic aspects.Early childhood education.EDUCATIONPreschool & Kindergarten.Education, PreschoolEarly childhood educationEducation, PreschoolEconomic aspectsEarly childhood educationEconomic aspects372.210973Bartik Timothy J994363MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910324047903321From Preschool to Prosperity2439342UNINA