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Elizabeth Warren’s universal pre-K idea needs a timeout
Boston Herald ^ | 2/24/19 | MONA CHAREN

Posted on 02/24/2019 5:56:45 PM PST by Libloather

**SNIP**

But even supposing the “ultra-rich” would hold still while the state extracted a fixed yearly portion of their net worth, any plan for universal pre-K deserves skepticism — the opposite of what most news stories convey. ABC News, for example, contends, “The benefits of early child care have long been documented, even showing taxpayers can make money back when investing in high-quality early education.”

This is tendentious and wrong. The links ABC provided don’t even support its assertion. The first is to a National Education Association publication (hardly a neutral arbiter), citing one famous study of extremely high-quality day care, the Abecedarian Early Childhood Intervention Project. That program got good results, but it was utterly unrepresentative of most day cares in the U.S. It was generously funded and staffed by college graduates. Teachers read aloud to the children, responded to their questions and encouraged their abilities. According to a 2006 survey by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, only 9 percent of American preschools were rated “very high quality.”

The second link ABC provided also references the small unrepresentative Abecedarian program, but this paper, far from agreeing that the benefits of day care are “documented,” notes that the matter is “strongly contested.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2020; elizabethwarren; fauxahontas; garbage; massachusetts; preschool; preschools; slingingbull; socialist; universal; universalprek; warren
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To: blueunicorn6

Same here.


21 posted on 02/24/2019 8:28:20 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Libloather

Democrat Campaign 2019

Cat Fight to see who can promise to redistribute the most taxpayer money.

Recycling the old Obama/Hillary strategery: “Vote for me and I will give you free stuff.”


22 posted on 02/24/2019 9:05:32 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (A.D. 636 Jerusalem Falls To Islam, A.D. 642 Christiahttps://nationalvanguarn Egypt Is Lost To Islam)
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To: Libloather
The first is to a National Education Association publication (hardly a neutral arbiter), citing one famous study of extremely high-quality day care, the Abecedarian Early Childhood Intervention Project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abecedarian

Regards,

23 posted on 02/24/2019 9:11:34 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Thanks Libloather.
24 posted on 02/24/2019 9:45:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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25 posted on 02/24/2019 11:58:17 PM PST by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
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To: BobL

This is all about free babysitting for the Julia vote.


26 posted on 02/25/2019 6:01:08 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Libloather

Pre-K is already available.


27 posted on 02/25/2019 6:04:35 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: shelterguy

It’s not “some indoctrination thrown in”; the indoctrination is the whole point.


28 posted on 02/25/2019 7:21:40 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Libloather

I didn’t go to KG, didn’t exist in my town in 1956. They have it now. Our kids didn’t get to go to Pre-K, they didn’t have it back then. I paid for them to go to Pre School. I now pay for school tax and we will never have a kid in school here, our kids are grown. Our grandkids do not live close. So it is all money blowing in the wind, gone, wasted.... I need a refund for all the money we have spent on public school and private school BEFORE Pokie Haunt Us give out free school!


29 posted on 02/26/2019 3:06:17 PM PST by buffyt (Pokie Haunt Us and Alexandria Pistachio Kotex....)
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To: 4Liberty

I love Ron Paul! He came to all of our Christmas parties in Lake Jackson.


30 posted on 02/26/2019 3:07:06 PM PST by buffyt (Pokie Haunt Us and Alexandria Pistachio Kotex....)
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