What Boston Can Teach Us About Free Universal Preschool Education

'President Biden has proposed the American Families Plan. And as part of that plan, he is proposing $200 billion towards free, universal preschool. Back in the late 1990s, Boston offered preschool to some of its children through a lottery. And this week, researchers released a study looking at the long-term effects of preschool education on those children. Joining The Takeaway to help us understand what they found, is one of the authors of the study, Christopher Walters. He is an Associate Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley and is affiliated with the MIT School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative.'