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

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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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