In this Wall Street Journal article today, Shikha Dalmia and Lisa Snell argue that it does more harm than good to send young children off to pre-school. Their position strongly supports my long-held idea that new educational programs should always be presumed to be means for the education establishment to wring still more money out of taxpayers.
But here’s a line I can’t endorse: “If Mr. Obama is serious about helping children, he should begin by fixing what is clearly broken: the K-12 system.”
The K-12 system is broken, but it is none of the president’s job (or anyone else in Washington) to do anything with respect to education.
