Last week, a couple hundred “nonprofit organizations, business leaders, and women’s advocates” took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to quixotically insist that Congress pass the (very, very dead) Build Back Better Act. Tellingly, the ad led with the ever-popular demand that Congress enact “universal preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds.”
Preschool Can Be Great. Universal Pre-K Schemes Are Something Else.
Despite what advocates say, the science does not support sweeping mandates.
