Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut

Chester E. Finn, Jr. outlines the issues that define, animate, and complicate today''s contentious pre-kindergarten debate in American education. He examines such topics as: which children really need it; how many aren''t getting it; who should provide it and at what expense; what is the right balance between education and child care; and how to know whether it is succeeding.