EarlyStories - Commentary on Coverage of Children’s Learning (Bill Gates' Dad Makes Pitch for Pre-K)

Welcome to EarlyStories, a weblog by Richard Lee Colvin and Liz Willen at the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, Teachers College, Columbia University. It contains commentary on coverage of issues (in newspapers, magazines, television, radio, blogs) related to early childhood education, broadly defined, inside and outside of schools, preschools, subway cars, living rooms and the dining table.

Bill Gates' Dad Makes Pitch for Pre-K

Posted by Richard Lee Colvin on April 18, 2007 6:40 PM

Bill Gates Sr. told the Ounce of Prevention Fund that the failure of the U.S. to invest more in pre-kindergarten is "bad business and it doesn't take long to see the consequences piling up." Also at the luncheon,
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. Chairman Terrence Duffy announced that the Merc’s charitable arm would donate $1 million to the Fund to be used in programs for at-risk infants and toddlers.

Business, increasingly, is seeing the value in investing in early childhood education. A story?

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