{"id":563,"date":"2012-11-23T16:22:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T23:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2012-11-23T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T23:22:24","slug":"why-preschool-can-save-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/why-preschool-can-save-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Preschool Can Save The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is such a powerful piece of reporting. It actually answers the question: 'What should we do?'<br \/>\nPlanet Money<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2012\/10\/19\/163256866\/episode-411-why-preschool-can-save-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2012\/10\/19\/163256866\/episode-411-why-preschool-can-save-the-world<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2012\/10\/19\/preschoolbrooklyn-b8159fd4ff3a4cdf0d8e1beefa82e43a23c018c5-s4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On today's show, we meet a self-described robber baron who decided to spend his billions on finger paint and changing tables. We revisit decades-long studies that found preschool made a huge difference in the lives of poor children. And we talk to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/economics\/laureates\/2000\/heckman-lecture.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nobel prize-winning economist<\/a> who says that spending public money on preschool produces a huge return on investment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is such a powerful piece of reporting. It actually answers the question: 'What should we do?' Planet Money http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2012\/10\/19\/163256866\/episode-411-why-preschool-can-save-the-world On today's show, we meet a self-described robber baron who decided to spend his billions on finger paint and changing tables. We revisit decades-long studies that found preschool made a huge difference in the lives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/why-preschool-can-save-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Why Preschool Can Save The World\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[344,345],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john","tag-preschool","tag-save-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}