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During his 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama called for a universal preschool program. The idea is that widespread preschool will boost students’ educational achievements later in life. The fact is, however, that universal preschool–which is on the books in Georgia and Oklahoma–is costly and has not been demonstrated to improve educational achievement. Watch the debate below.
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A Grand Bargain to Reopen Public Schools

7/15/20
by William A. Galston,
from The Wall Street Journal,
7/14/20:

Reopening public schools has moved—appropriately—to the center of national debate. U.S. public education from pre-K through 12th grade is a $680 billion yearly enterprise, involving about 51 million students and more than six million teachers and support staff, not to mention tens of millions of parents. If schools don’t reopen this fall, students will suffer, parents will face difficult choices, and the economic recovery will be hobbled. But if schools are reopened hastily, without adequate preparation, the public-health consequences will be dire. We should begin where parents and pediatricians do, with the well-being of children. The accumulating weight of evidence shows that online instruction for public-school students is inferior to face-to-face teaching and that schools offer opportunities for social and psychological development that distance learning cannot replicate. As the American Academy of Pediatrics states, policy discussions should “start with a goal of having students physically present in school.”

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