Mark Lipsey News Today

School districts across California are on a recruitment spree.

Evidence continues to mount that government-funded preschool fails to fulfill the promises of its proponents.

The children more likely to be brought up mostly by their own families, by contrast, were happier and learned better.

Students who participated in the early years of Tennessee’s public pre-K program still lag behind their peers on multiple levels, researchers say.

28 Apr 2021 CLAIM: “We add two years of universal high-quality pre-school for every 3- and 4-year-olds in America. The research shows that when a young child goes to school—not day care—they are far more likely to graduate from high school and go on to college,” President Joe Biden said in his prepared remarks. VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. A study published in the 2018 Early Childhood Research Quarterly by Mark Lipsey, Dale Farran, and Kelley Durkin found that the evidence does not support ...