Project Launches 10-Year Initiative to Link Early Education, Economy
A group of business leaders, economists, and philanthropists last week formally unveiled a 10-year project to make early education a top U.S. economic priority.
Concerns over global competition, the need for an innovative and better-trained workforce, and the growing national debt spurred the development of the Partnership for America’s Economic Success, said Robert Dugger, the chairman of the project’s advisory board. He is one of the project’s 12 funders and the managing director of Tudor Investment Corp., a Greenwich, Conn.-based financial-services company.
Educating children in their earliest years is not only a moral imperative, he said, but also a sound economic investment that will yield a healthy rate of return. “You want to grow the economy?” he...
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