11/26/2007 - Preschool has grown up.
Just five years ago, the question of whether to provide quality pre-kindergarten to our nation’s 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds was a relatively obscure policy dilemma viewed primarily as a child-care issue. Today, the discussion is not whether to make it available, but how—and it is a robust conversation among policy-makers, educators, business leaders, police chiefs, and others who view early learning as pivotal to education, public safety, and America’s economic prosperity.
See full article by Sara Watson and Susan Urahn titled A Movement Transformed on page 7 of The American Prospect special issue in PDF format.