Russ Whitehurst

Brookings Institution

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Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he's director of the Brown Center on Education Policy; former director of the Institute of Education Sciences at the US Department of Education under President George W. Bush

Russ Whitehurst on KCRW

In his State of the Union speech, President Obama made a proposal that hasn't been tried since the Nixon Administration: federally funded assistance for pre-school education.

Is Pre-school Education Being Oversold?

In his State of the Union speech, President Obama made a proposal that hasn't been tried since the Nixon Administration: federally funded assistance for pre-school education.

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