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A Better Way To Reform Head Start
Trump proposes to convert it into block grants. What it needs is a single-minded focus on preparing kids for kindergarten.
September 4, 2026
In California and other states nationwide, record sums are being sent on public education. And yet improvement – better testing scores, closing achievement gaps – remains elusive. Paul Peterson, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard, explains why money isn’t the sole cure to what ails America’s schools.
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