Early Child Development

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Early child development (ECD) refers to a combination of programs and policies aimed at improving the nutrition, health, cognitive and psycho-social development, education and social protection of young children. Brookings experts conduct research that aims to better understand how to successfully scale up and sustain effective ECD programs and policies in both America and throughout the developing world.

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).

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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.