Nothing, absolutely nothing that obama or his administration says should be trusted. Study after study has shown they lie.

Not bias, not incompetence, not mere lack of intelligence. The evidence that Barack Obama is doing what he is doing to us out of sheer spite, bad intent and revenge (on the entire USA) is now irrefutable.

Moreover, 1, nothing this Admn. has done has worked.

You have to be delusional to not be depressed by that thought.

What works the best for preschool development is a stable two parent household!

Obama is by no means alone in his counter-factual, intellectually dishonest, wishful thinking. One of the seductive appeals of Leftist ideology is its promise to replace reality by fantasy. Truth for Leftism is whatever Leftists wish it to be. When reality doesn´t measure up, so much the worse for reality - and for the messengers of such bad news.

Pre-school programs sound like they ought to work, therefore they do work. Indications to the contrary mean nothing except that enough effort(i.e. money) was not devoted to them. Doing twice as much of what did not work before will unquestionably assure success next time.

There is a deeper level. Head start programs ought to work - therefore they do work, whether they work or not. That is, even if it were possible to demonstrate beyond all possible doubt that such programs do not work, they would, in the world of Leftist fantasy ideology, still work. This is the Leftist leap of faith - the same that propelled someone like Obama into the White House.

For Leftist, truth is whatever ought to be true. Whether it is literally true or not is an altogether secondary matter.

I keep getting visions of forced propaganda, as in the Soviet Union and China.

Wouldn´t it be interesting to be able to chase down the "study after study" line, as to its origin in the speech writing process, or a follow-up on identifying two or more such studies? Alas, with a Republican president we might have studygate by now, but all is permissible (even laudable) with good King Barack.

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Early Childhood Education - a program that sounds so nice, it should work. But it does not.
Operation Head Start is a wonderful liberal boondoggle, employs lots of low skilled workers - drivers, cooks, baby sitters. But it doesn´t impart lasting advantages to the chillun. Red or yellow, black or white, it is ineffective by all rights.

I think there is a larger story to be pursued by a conservative writer: not just the ´faux empiricist´ but rather, the ´faux men-of-science´ slant that the left takes.

I´m annoyed and angered by the Left´s supposed monopoly on science, with regard to global warming (ahem...I mean "climate change"), genetics, energy production, healthcare, land and crop management, educational and social sciences, and geophysics. They pretend that they, by the sheer superiority of their liberalism, that reality too must conform to their worldview. And then they are smug and arrogant about this clear advantage of liberal thought.

While a study might show some improvement in a impoverished child taken from a single parent home, it would be wrong to assume that the results would extend to a child who is raised in a home with better conditions. The result of applying such a limited study and instituting a program for ALL children would have disastrous results and would surely dumb-down everyone and ruin the whole generation.

The only thing that is practically guaranteed to create a better outcome for children is a stable home with 2 educated parents that care more about their children than themselves. With every other situation, the chances of a positive outcome are reduced.

Nominate for Must-Read. Very short with evidence that simply can´t ignored if presented. Hence the fact that the study was published Christmas Eve when everyone was occupied.

I will take President Obama at his word when he says he loves his children. Everything else is a lie.

All this is, is a grab for children to start the brainwashing propaganda even earlier. If education is so important, why oh why are our schools such a disaster? We throw enough money per child at the schools in this country to send each of them to class in limos and feed them steak and lobster for lunch. Instead, all the money goes to the teacher unions and school admin.