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Universal Preschool

• New John Stossel Special: No They Can't! Why Government Fails But Individuals Succeed
  Lisa Snell
  April 6, 2012, 2:12pm
• NBC "Education Nation" Perpetuates Preschool Access Myth
  Lisa Snell
  September 27, 2010, 4:08pm
• Head Start Fail: Enrollment Fraud Edition
  Lisa Snell
  May 21, 2010, 1:35pm
• Public Sector Employees are Killing the Economy: Head Start Edition
  Lisa Snell
  April 1, 2010, 5:19pm
• Oklahoma Universal Preschool Fail: 2009 NAEP Reading Edition
  Lisa Snell
  March 24, 2010, 1:46pm
• What Universal Kindergarten Tells Us About Universal Preschool
  Lisa Snell
  March 3, 2010, 1:55pm
• Fake Spending Freeze: Head Start Edition
  Lisa Snell
  February 3, 2010, 1:05pm
• Head Start Fail: Federal Preschool Program Does Not Give Kids Leg Up
  Lisa Snell
  January 15, 2010, 2:58pm
• Preschool Hype: National Security Edition
  Lisa Snell
  November 2, 2009, 2:05pm
• Ayn Rand Preschool Action with Barack Obama, Preschool Advocates as Comprachicos, and "Maggie Roark" Standing Alone Against the Daycare Worker of Her Time...
  Lisa Snell
  November 2, 2009, 12:39pm
• Tennessee's Gold-Standard Preschool Not Effective After 2nd Grade
  Lisa Snell
  November 1, 2009, 11:44pm
• Lower Standards in Schools: Preschool Edition
  Lisa Snell
  October 30, 2009, 3:23pm
• Slow the Preschool Bandwagon
  Lisa Snell
  May 15, 2009, 3:31pm
• Recession Stalls State-Funded Pre-kindergarten
  Lisa Snell
  April 8, 2009, 12:22pm
• Differences Between Obama's Education Speech And His Adminstration's Actions
  Lisa Snell
  March 18, 2009, 6:30pm
• The Inconsistencies In President Obama's Education Plans
  The rhetoric on charter schools, firing bad teachers and merit pay sounds good, but where is the follow through?
  Lisa Snell
  March 18, 2009
• House Democrats Seek to End DC Voucher Program
  Lisa Snell
  March 3, 2009, 9:11am
• Preschool's Failures
  Where are the long-term benefits?
  Lisa Snell
  October 31, 2008
• Universal Preschool Isn't the Silver Bullet
  Reason.tv video examines the arguments for and against universal pre-K
  October 23, 2008
• Universal Preschool Hasn't Delivered Results
  Study after study shows no long-term gains for kids who attend universal preschool
  Shikha Dalmia and Lisa Snell
  October 17, 2008
• More Evidence that Universal Preschool Doesn't Offer Lasting Benefits
  By second grade the benefits of one of the nation's 'best' universal pre-K programs are gone
  Lisa Snell
  August 22, 2008
• Protect Our Kids from Preschool
  Preschool doesn't show lasting gains and may do more harm than good
  Shikha Dalmia and Lisa Snell
  August 22, 2008
• Failing Public Schools Wipe Out Any Preschools Gains
  Sen. Obama's education plans should focus on charter schools, other reforms, not universal preschool
  Lisa Snell
  June 6, 2008
• Preschool Reality Check in New Jersey
  Long-term benefits of preschool are being overstated
  Lisa Snell
  August 9, 2007
• Indiana's Full-Day Kindergarten: A Wise Choice for Education Dollars?
  Negligible, short-term results won't fix Indiana's schools
  Lisa Snell
  March 6, 2007
• Universal Preschool Benefits Miscalculated and Overstated
  RAND study compares apples and oranges, exaggerates pre-k's benefits, underestimates costs
  Chris Cardiff and Edward Stringham
  June 6, 2006
• Professors Find Preschool Benefits Grossly Exaggerated
  Errors in Rand's cost-benefit analysis caused severe over-estimation of preschool benefits
  May 30, 2006
• Preschool For All? Don't Feed the Beast
  Claims that preschool boosts reading scores later are at odds with history
  Lisa Snell
  May 25, 2006
• Study Finds Preschool Programs Fail to Demonstrate Lasting, Positive Impact
  Huge increase in preschool enrollment hasn't produced better test scores
  May 11, 2006
• Assessing Proposals for Preschool and Kindergarten
  Essential Information for Parents, Taxpayers and Policymakers
  Darcy Olsen and Lisa Snell
  May 1, 2006
• Is Universal Preschool Beneficial? An Assessment of RAND Corporation's Analysis and the Proposals for California
  May 1, 2006
• Hands Off My Fridge, Meathead
  Taxing and tactics should be questioned in California universal preschool debate
  Shikha Dalmia and Lisa Snell
  March 16, 2006
• The Case Against Universal Preschool in California
  Lisa Snell
  February 22, 2006
• California Universal Preschool Plan Would Cost $109,000 Per New Preschooler
  Study also shows the states with long-running universal pre-K programs produce some of the nation's worst reading scores
  February 22, 2006
• Meathead Is at It Again
  California's universal preschool plan will hurt businesses, teachers
  Shikha Dalmia and Lisa Snell
  December 8, 2005
• Universal Preschool Is Inviting Universal Disaster
  Reiner's plan is failing in Quebec, won't work in CA
  Shikha Dalmia and Lisa Snell
  December 4, 2005
• Don't Give Them Our Preschoolers
  Rob Reiner's Preschool for All Act throws good money after bad
  Lisa Snell
  September 22, 2005
• Universal Preschool Isn't the Answer
  Data show government-run preschools are a costly failure
  Lisa Snell
  September 7, 2005

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