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Karoly, Lynn A. – Future of Children, 2016
One way to assess the value of preschool education programs is to compare their upfront costs with the economic benefits they produce, measured by such outcomes as less need for special education services, improved high school graduation rates, higher earnings and less criminal activity in adulthood, and so on. What do such benefit-cost analyses…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Outcomes of Education, Preschool Education, Program Evaluation