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GOOD magazine asked , a Schwartz fellow here at ������Ƶ, to contribute a policy proposal to its “Campaign for Big Ideas.” In her piece, Goldstein argues for  for every 3- and 4-year-old across the country.

She writes:

Guaranteeing universal access to preschool would benefit children, of course, but also their parents and the overall economy. First, extending the social contract to 3-and-4-year-olds would acknowledge that our public education system can no longer run on a pre-feminism model that assumes mothers of young children don’t need or want to work. Second, improving lifetime educational achievement by reaching all children as early in their brain development as possible would increase economic mobility. And third, universal preschool would create many new jobs for early education teachers and teachers’ aides.

On , Paul Nyhan writes about the debate Goldstein’s commentary has rekindled and asks how the president and federal government should work on early education. , , and  have also reacted to the piece.

Read Goldstein’s GOOD magazine article .