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Good Reporting Requires a Critical Eye

Posted By Adam Schaeffer On June 8, 2009 @ 10:46 am In Education and Child Policy | Comments Disabled

Preschool access and attendance is often presented as an unalloyed good that will bring a huge return on investment. It’s not, and there’s little evidence that the benefits outweigh the costs. ^[1]

Yet the Washington Post brings ^[2] us a story about the push for state preschool expansion with nothing but supporters of government finance and controlled preschool and no critical treatment of the supposed evidence offered by those proponents.

I strongly urge the media to talk to some folks who have a critical take of the push for universal preschool when they write an article. What they write might then read like a news story rather than a press release from Pew.

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[1] It’s not, and there’s little evidence that the benefits outweigh the costs.: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2008/08/22/pre-k-pushers-don%e2%80%99t-know-and-don%e2%80%99t-care-about-the-evidence/

[2] brings: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/07/AR2009060702116_pf.html

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