Dr. Shelley Rousery any measure, $11.73 billion is a staggering amount of public investment — that’s what states collectively spent in just one year on state-funded preschool, according to the latest report from the National Institute for Early Education Research. To offer perspective, that’s about double the entire annual budget for a small state like Delaware. And with that kind of price tag, the question practically asks itself: How do we ensure the dollars allocated for early childhood education will yield the greatest return? The answer isn’t just about better classrooms or more seats in pre-K programs, although these things certainly matter;
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