Steve Barnett, the director of the National Institute on Early Education Research, has a commentary in his organization's Preschool Matters newsletter that acknowledges the major contributions of Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman. Friedman was the first to say that the government should give parents vouchers that could be cashed in to pay tuition at public or private schools. Of course, vouchers have made almost no inroads in K-12 education. But Barnett points out that vouchers are used widely in child care and also in state pre-k programs. Journalists should keep this idea in their minds when they write about vouchers dismissively. The article can be found here.