[AAACE-NLA] FW: Economist Heckman statement

[David Collings]

One more from Mark.
 
David C.

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From: Mark Johnson [mailto:mark.johnson at usg.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:38 PM
To: National Literacy Advocacy List sponsored by AAACE
Subject: Re: [AAACE-NLA] Economist Heckman statement


The full text of The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children,
along with a summary, is available at http://www.ced.org/. Related web sites:
http://www.pewtrusts.org/, http://www.pnc.com/.

JoAnn Weinberger wrote:


Greetings,
 
In the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer in an article on the importance of providing
preschool education, Professor James Heckman of the University of Chicago and a
Nobel laureate in economics is paraphrased as saying:  from a purely human
capital point of view, investiment in early childhood is much more
cost-effective than investment in job training of GEDs.
 
Does anyone have a reference to an article by Heckman on this subject?  Was the
return on investment made on parents included?
 
JoAnn Weinberger
President/Executive Director
Center for Literacy
215-474-1235, ext. 227
 


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