What is driving the expansion of state-funded preschools across the country?
David Kirp: What’s driving it is the good long-term research that shows that if a child goes to preschool they will have a higher income, are less likely to be involved in crime, more likely to graduate from college and have happier lives. There is also brain science that has shown the incredible importance of brain development in the earliest years. Why did you write this book? I was walking on the beach with a friend who is pediatrician who was telling me about this incredible data on the lifelong benefits of high-quality preschool—and how the pre-K movement was spreading across the country. And at the same time my sister-in-law was trying to find a preschool—a good one—for her child. And what I realized is, though pre-K is becoming more common, there’s a gap between the research, which is clear about the benefits of high-quality preschool, and the kind of programs that are actually available to people. You argue in your book that this very gap could hurt the pre-K movement. How? The
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