Education
Pre-Kindergarten Education
Introduction North Carolina’s compulsory attendance law allows parents and guardians to enroll their children in school as early as age five. Before their children reach that age, parents and guardians…
Head Start
U.S. federal aid program for low-income childcare
Education
N.C. State Guidance Puts Preschoolers in Classrooms and Kindergarteners on Computers
The beginning of the school year is coming up fast. While many parents are preparing to school their children from home in the fall, parents of preschoolers will likely have…
Research Brief
Education
State officials tell preschools to maximize in-person instruction, minimize remote learning
Apparently, what’s good for a 5-year-old in a public school kindergarten class is much different than what’s good for a 4-year-old in a state-run preschool program. At last count, 64…
Education
Brookings: Need for more evidence-based pre-K
Here is an excerpt from an interesting piece on federal Preschool Development Grants (and preschool programs generally) by a fellow at the Brookings Institution, State pre-K, like Head Start, is…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Should we celebrate Head Start’s 50th anniversary?
Answering the above question depends on whether the $8 billion program actually produces lasting benefits for low-income children. In an interview with PBS Newshour, Russ Whitehurst, Senior Fellow at the…
Liberty
Problems with the politics of kindness
The latest print edition of National Review features Michael Knox Beran‘s review of The Pity Party, the latest book from William Voegeli. Beran focuses on the author’s analysis of the…
Liberty
Some sobering news about the 50-year ‘War on Poverty’
Thomas Donlan‘s latest editorial commentary for Barron’s details the impact of 50 years of federal government programs targeting poverty. There were celebrations last week of the 50th anniversary of Lyndon…
Health Care
Goldberg pours water on the concept of the ‘ratchet effect’
You’ve heard of the “ratchet effect,” the notion that once government has assumed a new set of powers — usually during a crisis — it never surrenders all of those…
Liberty
Fortune managing editor’s disturbing thoughts about income inequality
Andy Serwer’s editor’s note near the front of the latest Fortune magazine tackles the topic of growing income inequality in the United States. Serwer’s observations are disturbing in at least…
Liberty
Cato’s Tanner examines the myth of indispensable government programs
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute shares with National Review Online readers his observations about the dubious claim that every government program is “not just successful, but essential.” Here is…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Head Start Needs More Than ‘Sequester’ Pain
Education Week reports today on ‘sequester’ pain being felt by the “Great Society Relic” Head Start. Head Start is a federal preschool program to prepare low-income children for kindergarten readiness.…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
NACO misinformation on Head Start
The National Association of Counties (NACO) publishes a monthly newsletter titled County News. This month’s edition had a short blurb about the 5 percent budget cut to Head Start, which…