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The coin flip in Ypsilanti

In 1962, a school official in Michigan opened a small preschool against expert advice and ran it as an experiment. Research and a book billed as a New York Times bestseller show what early education can and cannot promise. This is history and research, not advice about any child.

Major #28: Early Childhood EducationThe story: David Weikart (1960s). The book: How Children Succeed by Paul Tough.

About 8 minutes

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In this lesson

  • The percentile that would not move
  • A coin flip and forty years
  • What the research says
  • The book: How Children Succeed
  • What the evidence says about the book
  • Where this comes from
  • Try it today
  • 4 questions to check yourself

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