The article by Jack P. Shonkoff on early childhood policy is mostly persuasive. ("Mobilizing Science to Revitalize Early Childhood Policy," Issues, Fall 2009). Even so, I have three nits to pick. The first is that Shonkoff s argument that early childhood policy needs to be "revitalized" is misleading. There has been a productive and energetic debate at the federal level since the beginning of the war on poverty about early childhood policy. Over these four-plus decades, both Republicans and Democrats have supported a host of laws that created large child care and preschool programs.
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