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Expanding Access to Quality Pre-K is Sound Public Policy
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- Steven Barnett, Ph.D.
- National Institute for Early Education Research
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
December 2013
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Executive Summary
In 2013, preschool education received more attention in the media and public policy circles than it has
for some time, in part because of a series of high-profile proposals to expand access to quality pre-K.
- The scientific basis for these proposed expansions of quality pre-K is impressive.
- A national randomized trial of children who attended Head Start in
2002 found modest initial effects and failed to detect lasting impacts.
- The latest follow up on the New Jersey chi...
Why expanding quality PreK is a sound public polic... 
