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Research: The Economic Promise of Investing in High-Quality Preschool Using Early Education to Improve Economic Growth and the Fiscal Sustainability of States and the Nation by the Committee for Economic Development
1 Mar 2006
This report from the Committee for Economic Development (CED) concludes that implementing pre-school programmes for all can be expected to generate $2 to $4 for every dollar invested and provide a boost to long-term economic growth. The report recommends, among other things, that governing bodies make access to publicly funded, high-quality pre-kindergarten an economic and educational priority, that pre-school education programmes meet quality standards necessary to deliver potential benefits, and that the broad economic benefits of pre-school should be considered when allocating resources in the face of competing uses and demands for funding.
The report can be downloaded from the National Institute for Early Education Research.
