74 percent of four-year-olds already enrolled in preschool showing no demand for expansion. Head Start costs $8 billion yearly with zero impact on cognitive skills, health, or parenting. Head Start sometimes harms children on key measures. Gains from preschool fade by first grade with increased behavioral problems. Perry and Abecedarian small successes not replicated in large programs. Georgia and Oklahoma universal preschool yields no NAEP reading gains after decades. Single motherhood drives child poverty with 72 percent rate among African Americans, 53 percent Hispanics, 29 percent whites. Children in single-parent homes six times more likely poor even controlling income. Intact families produce better academics, fewer behavioral issues. Government preschool crowds out private providers as in Quebec. Non-maternal center care increases behavioral problems especially for infants. Low-income kids benefit least from scaled-up public preschool. 45 duplicative federal preschool programs already cost $20 billion yearly. Obama plan duplicates failures and subsidizes middle-class families. Strong families outperform any government preschool. Unwed childbearing greatest poverty cause ignored by preschool push. Head Start evaluation shows no language, literacy, or math improvements.
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