U.S. President Barack Obama plays a game with children in a pre-kindergarten classroom at College Heights early childhood learning center in Decatur, Georgia (REUTERS/Jason Reed).
Blog Post
Obama’s Preschool Plan
February 20, 2013, Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst
Last week President Obama announced an initiative to have the states "make preschool available to every child." While the rhetoric sounds like a call for universal preschool, Russ Whitehurst explains that the White House fact sheet on the preschool plan suggests otherwise.