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| Sesame Street: Preschool Musical |
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Enjoy this sneak peek from Season 39 of
Sesame Street, which launches on August 11
along with a fantastic new website at
http://www.sesamestreet.org.
Watch Preschool Musical, a Sesame Spoof.
Sesame Street is a production of Sesame
Workshop, a nonprofit educational
organization which also produces Pinky Dinky
Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs
for children around the world.
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| Universal Preschool: A silver bullet for education reform or a waste of money? |
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With support from major foundations and
political heavy hitters like Barack Obama,
universal preschool is the next big thing in
education reform. Indeed, on the liberal wish
list, it is second only to universal health
care. The goal is to offer publicly funded
preschool--complete with credentialed
teachers and and a standardized
curriculum--to all four-year olds during the
school year.
Advocates argue that public investments in
early education will pay dividends over the
long-term. Critics point out that the
evidence from states that have universal
preschool programs shows that the benefits
kids receive from those programs fade out by
the 4th grade.
Since preschool attendance rates in states
that have universal preschool are no higher
than the national average, universal
preschool wouldn't even increase preschool
attendance. It would, however, cost a lot of
money, put lots of privately owned preschools
out of business and dramatically decrease
early education options for parents.
So what do you think? Is simply expanding our
failing K-12 system the best way to fix it?
Hosted by Nick Gillespie, this Reason.tv
documentary was written by Paul Feine and
photographed by Roger M. Richards.
Tags : documentary commentary analysis news universal preschool president barack obama nick gillespie reason.tv libertarian |
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