Early Education is an Economic Imperative

"We still haven’t found the will to ensure that all our children, especially the most vulnerable, have the early childhood opportunities they need. We owe our young children better. The gap between the rhetoric and the reality is stunning given the research, the support of our top economists, and the growing understanding of the importance of our children’s earliest years not only for school success, but for our nation’s economic success."

Helen Blank, National Women’s Law Center, at Wheelock College, Boston, May 24, 2012 http://www.strategiesforchildren.org/eea/7federal/HelenBlankSpeech_5-24-12.pdf