Month: August 2018

Greetings Graduate Students, The American Journal of Education (AJE) is seeking doctoral and master’s student applicants for the AJE Student Board. AJE is a core journal in the field of education that covers a broad spectrum of educational research (including K-12 and higher education levels), and has been edited by Penn State faculty since 2003.

It is hard to imagine a time when the value of early childhood care and education would be questioned. But in 1979, a World Bank working paper argued that “preschool interventions could not be justified.” Policy makers at the time considered early childhood care and education to be too expensive and its benefits were thought