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How educating children early and well creates a ripple effect for us all

As research from Nobel economics laureate James J. Heckman has showed, early investment in disadvantaged children improves academic achievements, career prospects and, ultimately, their lifetime income, which brings in more tax dollars.

It also reduces public spending on criminal justice, remedial education, health care, and safety-net programs that disproportionately get used by people who grew up poor.

Heckman’s work suggests that a dollar spent on high-quality early-childhood education programs produces a higher return on investment than does almost any major alternative.

By Catherine Rampell

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2015/02/09/eec847da-b0a3-11e4-854b-a38d13486ba1_story.html?hpid=z3

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