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I spent my in Michigan’s public schools. Along with my time teaching first grade in Brooklyn, those years frame most of my thinking about education reform. As pre-K’s rising political profile has recently  about pre-K research, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about the Midwest’s approach to early education. After all, two of the research studies anyone cites in these discussions come from the Midwest: the Perry Preschool Project and the Chicago Child Parent Centers. Yet the region has hardly been a leader in pre-K investments in recent years.

So I wrote :

Like any good manufacturing hub, the Midwest has exported its expertise throughout the country. Oklahoma has dramatically expanded its state pre-K programs since 1998; 75% of four-year-olds are now enrolled. Guess what?. Washington, DC has 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/grays-real-contribution-to-improving-dc-schools/2013/08/23/0784bae0-0b5c-11e3-8974-f97ab3b3c677_story.html

 over the last decade; 92% of four-year-olds and 69% of three-year-olds were enrolled last year. One of the key local figures in the expansion was a . Iowa has been expanding public pre-K for the last five years—state documents . Georgia’s Department of Education . Heck, the research is even an ¾±²Ô³Ù±ð°ù²Ô²¹³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô²¹±ôÌýexport. In the 1990s,  and funded universal pre-K (and child care)…Meanwhile, Michigan has no state program offering preschool to three-year-olds.

Update, 02/14/2014, 13:55: The post is now up at the Washington Post‘s “Answer Sheet” blog. .”