La prescuola fa bene, ma non come pensavate voi POST

(no academic gains, but large life-outcome gains years later

Children who have been to preschool seem to stay in school longer, get better jobs, commit less crime, and require less welfare

https://feedly.com/i/entry/ty+AzTYZ3TUuMuPycOdkUNamwQCXNpDbajbdLnbrc5c=_166e8433067:15e8cb4:df8f4700

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/02/04/democrats-love-universal-pre-k-and-dont-seem-to-care-that-it-may-not-work/?tid=hybrid_content_2_na

Preschool

Chi partecipa fa peggio.   New results on preschool from a Tennessee RCT http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/10/new-results-on-preschool-from-a-tennessee-rct.html

preschool: more evidence (negativa)

Jason Richwine - New 3rd grade follow-up: Point estimates of the...:



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Preschool?

Boston Review — Charles Murray Responds to James J. Heckman: "Perry Preschool and the Abecedarian Project. The samples were small. Perry Preschool had just 58 children in the treatment group and 65 in the control group, while Abecedarian had 57 children in the treatment group and 54 in the control group. In both cases the people who ran the program were also deeply involved in collecting and coding the evaluation data, and they were passionate advocates of early childhood intervention. These shortcomings do not automatically disqualify the results, but think of it this way: if the case against the efficacy of early childhood interventions rested on two studies with small samples conducted by people who were openly hostile to such interventions, no one would pay any attention to them."



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http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/12/case_in_point.html

Dubbi sugli studi preschool

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2014/04/02-dubious-prek-science-whitehurst#.UzxP9DQ5jN4.twitter

Does Pre-k Work? It Depends How Picky You Are

Does Pre-k Work? It Depends How Picky You Are | Brookings Institution: "Ya’ll just need to be more picky"



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Pre school scetticismo

"Skeptics on Pre-School" http://feedly.com/k/1b0S8A8

Il colpo di grazia per le preschool

A new RCT study of preschool:

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Preschool

"Does Early Education Reduce the Achievement Gap?" http://feedly.com/k/Hly9Vw

Ok preschool ma non per tutti

CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: Preschool for At-Risk Children, Yes; Universal Preschool, Maybe Not:

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L' età cruciale

Siete un governante e dovete investire sulla gioventù del vostro Paese.

Dove mettete i soldi?, nei Licei?, nelle Università?

No, se avete il senso degli affari punterete tutto sugli asili per bambini provenienti da famiglie svantaggiate.

...Nobel Prize winner James Heckman of the University of Chicago and Dimitriy Masterov of the University of Michigan argue that by waiting until kindergarten, we throw money at kids when it's too late. Their evidence urges shifting educational spending to younger children... Recent developments in neuroscience have shown that the early years are vital to cognitive development, which in turn is important to subsequent success and productivity in school, life, and work... while many people advocate spending on these kids for reasons of fairness or justice, Heckman and Masterov make a different case. They're saying this preschool spending is a sound economic investment...

Fonte: http://www.slate.com/id/2166852/