The long-run impacts of early childhood education: Evidence from a failed policy experiment

During his State of the Union address on February 12, 2013, US President Barack Obama referred to University of Chicago Professor James Heckman’s research and his finding of a 7–10% return on investment per annum for certain early childhood education programs. These rates of return are higher than those for equity in the stock market between 1945 and 2008. In 2013, the US Congress introduced a bill to expand access to high-quality, full-day preschool for 4-year-olds from low- to moderate-income families. Professor Heckman pointed out that early childhood educational policies such as this bill are socially fair and economically efficient. There is no trade-off between equity and efficiency. Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run, and promote prosperity.

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Investing in Preschool Programs

The Journal of Economic Perspectives ◽

10.1257/jep.27.2.109 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 109-132 ◽

Cited By ~ 226

Author(s):

Greg J Duncan ◽

Katherine Magnuson

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

School Achievement ◽

Education Programs ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Childhood Education ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Long Run ◽

Early School ◽

Short Run

We summarize the available evidence on the extent to which expenditures on early childhood education programs constitute worthy social investments in the human capital of children. We provide an overview of existing early childhood education programs, and then summarize results from a substantial body of methodologically sound evaluations of the impacts of early childhood education. The evidence supports few unqualified conclusions. Many early childhood education programs appear to boost cognitive ability and early school achievement in the short run. However, most of them show smaller impacts than those generated by the best-known programs, and their cognitive impacts largely disappear within a few years. Despite this fade-out, long-run follow-ups from a handful of well-known programs show lasting positive effects on such outcomes as greater educational attainment, higher earnings, and lower rates of crime. It is uncertain what skills, behaviors, or developmental processes are particularly important in producing these longer-run impacts. Our review also describes different models of human development used by social scientists, examines heterogeneous results across groups, and tries to identify the ingredients of early childhood education programs that are most likely to improve the performance of these programs.

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KEGIATAN PENGABDIAN KEPADA MASYARAKAT : Perancangan Sarana Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini Untuk Sekolah Cahaya Al-fuqron, Desa Gunung Sari, Kecamatan Mauk, Kabupaten Tanggerang

Jurnal Dimensi Seni Rupa dan Desain ◽

10.25105/dim.v15i1.4203 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 63

Author(s):

Devanny Gumulya ◽

Ryan Adiputra

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

Child Growth ◽

Further Education ◽

Target Market ◽

Lower Middle Class ◽

Childhood Education ◽

Long Run ◽

Home Based ◽

The Government

Abstract Early childhood education is one of the most important stages in the process of child growth. This program was designed in order to prepare young children for further education at the elementary school stage. However, many early childhood education facilities, especialy owned by the government located in villages still have unfeasible facilities, based on data from Early Childhood Education Association in 2016. From unfit buildings to inadequate learning facilities. UPH saw this as an oppounity to do community service, since it is necessary to design an appropriate and suitable learning tool for children in their early childhood age, in which case study was conduct on an early childhood education facility located in a village in Mauk area, Cahaya Al Fuqron. The design process begins with researching data through observation to the facility, interviews with the people in the area as well expert on the early childhood education. The results were twenty multifunction furnitures designed and produced for the school. Hopefully in the long run this can be developed to another inadequate early childhood education facilities in other villages and provide appropriate and suitable facilities to the children with lower-middle class target market. The design also supports the home-based furniture industry and as an effort to support and assisting early childhood education nationally.

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Early-Childhood Education for the Developmentally Delayed: Diagnosis, Intervention, and Evaluation

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.1002.81 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 81-92

Author(s):

Susan Freedman Gilbert

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

School Children ◽

Developmental Delays ◽

Delayed Diagnosis ◽

Language Impairments ◽

Developmentally Delayed ◽

Speech And Language ◽

Childhood Education

This paper describes the referral, diagnostic, interventive, and evaluative procedures used in a self-contained, behaviorally oriented, noncategorical program for pre-school children with speech and language impairments and other developmental delays.

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