The benefits of early childhood education can persist in the long run

Robert C. Carr is a research scientist at the Center for Child and Family Policy. His research broadly considers how child care and early childhood education programming influences children’s development of academic and social-behavioral skills, with recent efforts focused on the effects of state-funded pre-kindergarten and Head Start preschool programming. A novel aspect of this research examines the conditions under which early childhood program effects are more or less like