Economic benefits of preschool go beyond just higher tax revenues and savings on social spending, Bartik says. There’s a degree of skill spillover in the labor market – even if a person is very skilled. If their coworkers are not as skilled, employers won’t be able to introduce as much technology or be as productive, which will hold down wages for everyone. “If all workers where I work are skilled, and if our suppliers are more skilled and we have more skilled workers, I can provide a higher quality product and it will increase the competiveness and profitability of my employer,” Bartik says. That’s pretty serious stuff for a curriculum that typically involves concepts as simple as colors and shapes.
Tanken på förskolans ekonomiska betydelse känner jag igen.
It’s also important to make sure lower-income children, who are at a disadvantage compared to children from higher-income families, get the same quality as a way to level the playing field. Bartik calls for mixed classrooms, with children of high-, middle- and low-income families all in the same classroom versus the income-segregated model of Head Start.
Hmmmm – en skola för alla? Var det någon som nämnde det i Almedalen?
Ibland krävs djupa kunskaper för att förstå en bild.
