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  • Report on August 17, 2010 Solutions for America: Education Reform

    THE ISSUE: American education is at a crossroads. The federal government’s role in education has grown significantly over the past half-century, infringing on our long-held principle of federalism in education. Massive spending increases, and the reams of regulations that accompany…

  • WebMemo posted October 22, 2010 by David Muhlhausen, Ph.D. Expanding Head Start: Is the Obama Administration Serious about Using Empirical Evidence to Inform Policymaking?

    In the recent edition of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, former Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Peter R. Orszag argues that empirical evidence is the foundation of policymaking in the Obama Administration.[1] Orszag asserts that the Administration “has…

  • WebMemo posted May 28, 2010 by David Muhlhausen, Ph.D. Head Start Program: Fraudulent and Ineffective

    The year 2010 will surely go down as a bad year for Head Start—a “Great Society” pre-school program intended to provide a boost to disadvantaged children before they enter elementary school. First, a scientifically rigorous experimental evaluation of Head Start found that the program largely failed to improve the cognitive,…

  • Backgrounder posted March 29, 1991 by Robert Knight Federal Support for Early Childhood Programs: Caution is Needed

    Introduction Americans overwhelmingly believe that parents know best how to raise young children. This is confirmed in poll after poll. ("For Better or Worse, Results from a Newsweek Gallup poll, 1989," Newsweek, Special Issue on Children, Summer 1990, p. 18.) Experts, too, agree that the family home is the optimum setting for early childhood development. Yet the…

  • Testimony posted March 15, 2011 by Jennifer Marshall Effects of the Federal Role and Intervention in Education

    Testimony before House Education Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education United States House of Representatives …

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  • WebMemo posted October 22, 2010 by David Muhlhausen, Ph.D. Expanding Head Start: Is the Obama Administration Serious about Using Empirical Evidence to Inform Policymaking?

    In the recent edition of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, former Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Peter R. Orszag argues that empirical evidence is the foundation of policymaking in the Obama Administration.[1] Orszag asserts that the Administration “has…

  • Report on August 17, 2010 Solutions for America: Education Reform

    THE ISSUE: American education is at a crossroads. The federal government’s role in education has grown significantly over the past half-century, infringing on our long-held principle of federalism in education. Massive spending increases, and the reams of regulations that accompany…

  • WebMemo posted May 28, 2010 by David Muhlhausen, Ph.D. Head Start Program: Fraudulent and Ineffective

    The year 2010 will surely go down as a bad year for Head Start—a “Great Society” pre-school program intended to provide a boost to disadvantaged children before they enter elementary school. First, a scientifically rigorous experimental evaluation of Head Start found that the program largely failed to improve the cognitive,…

  • Backgrounder posted March 29, 1991 by Robert Knight Federal Support for Early Childhood Programs: Caution is Needed

    Introduction Americans overwhelmingly believe that parents know best how to raise young children. This is confirmed in poll after poll. ("For Better or Worse, Results from a Newsweek Gallup poll, 1989," Newsweek, Special Issue on Children, Summer 1990, p. 18.) Experts, too, agree that the family home is the optimum setting for early childhood development. Yet the…

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