Tag: preschool

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

Marking the end of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip and the release of the Pixar film Toy Story, 1995 was a landmark year for American children. In roughly the same year, most eligible children began attending full-day kindergarten, and most three- and four-year-olds were enrolled in preschool programs (Jamieson, Curry, and Martinez, 2001). Many