High Quality Pre-K: Taking the Road Less Traveled

W. Steven Barnett is a Board of Governors Professor and Director of the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University. Barnett is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and a member of the National Academy of Education. He is co-editor of the International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy and a member of the editorial board of Early Childhood Research Quarterly. He earned his PhD in economics at the University of Michigan, and his research applies economic analysis to issues of early care and education policy and practice including the well- known benefit-cost analyses of the Perry Preschool and Abecedarian programs. He has also studied the impacts of program duration and intensity, dual language models, curriculum, alternative staffing structures, professional development, and parental engagement. His publications include “Effectiveness of early educational intervention” in the journal Science and The Pre-K Debates: Current controversies and issues from Brookes Publishing, which he co-edited.

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