Investing early allows us to shape the future

We can invest early to close disparities and prevent achievement gaps, or we can pay to remediate disparities when they are harder and more expensive to close.

Either way we are going to pay... But there is an important difference between the two approaches.

Investing early allows us to shape the future; investing later chains us to fixing the missed opportunities of the past.
- Prof. James Heackman, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2000

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