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Saturday, February 2, 2008
When kids fail in school, we all pay
(New high school graduates Jerrod Hoskins and Kathleen Hause at Springboro’s ceremony last spring.)
Over at the Early Stories blog, my pal and former LA Times education reporter Richard Lee Colvin blogs about early childhood education. He wrote recently about a new book looking at the economic and social price of poor education.
Colvin references the famous Perry Pre-School Study in which researchers tracked the life outcomes of children who got high quality pre-school in Ypsilanti, Mich. over 40 plus years.
In the book, “The Price We Pay,” Colvin’s Columbia University colleagues Henry Levin and Clive Belfield, a pair of economists, find (in Colvin’s words) that:
… offering preschool the quality of the legendary Perry Preschool Project of 40 years ago to 100 children would produce an additional 19 high school graduates.
But, they also find other interventions, even high school interventions, that might make even more difference. What will it take to get schools to invest in more effective interventions?
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