U.S. News & World Report, October 14, 2016: (Opinion) What Pre-K Evangelists Get Wrong

"Pre-K advocates are using two primary arguments to drive the accelerating expansion of pre-K, both focused on helping low-income children and families. The first is the brain science argument, which goes like this: "Science tells us that the first five years are the most important period of a child's learning and development. Pre-K gives disadvantaged children the strong early start that a growing body of brain research clearly shows they need." The second is the child care argument, which you also may have heard: "Low-income families are desperate for affordable, high quality child care. Pre-K helps give working parents the child care they so badly need."