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A Stitch in Time: Calculating the Costs of School Unreadiness

This monograph synthesizes the literature and evidence on early childhood development and school readiness and its relationship to future social problems and costs, and presents several alternative approaches that can be used to estimate the cost of school unreadiness.

Charles Bruner, The Finance Project, 2002

See this resource at
http://www.financeproject.org/stitchintime.pdf

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