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Education and Child Policy > Early Childhood


Books and Book Chapters

"Child Care" Chapter 27, Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 106th Congress, (1999).

Cato Studies

"Universal Preschool Is No Golden Ticket: Why Government Should Not Enter the Preschool Business," by Darcy Ann Olsen, Policy Analysis no. 333, February 9, 1999

"The Advancing Nanny State: Why the Government Should Stay Out of Child Care," by Darcy Ann Olsen, Policy Analysis no. 285, October 23, 1997

"Day-Care Regulation: Serving Children or Bureaucrats?," by Karen Lehrman and Jana Pace, Policy Analysis no. 59, September 25, 1985

Opinion and Commentary

"Not 'For the Children'," by Michael D. Tanner, McClatchy News Service, October 5, 2007

"In Book-Banning Story, the System Is Scrooge," by Neal McCluskey, Washington Examiner, December 29, 2005

"Doing It for the Children," by Radley Balko, Cato.org, July 11, 2005

"Does More Schooling Equal Better Results?," by Casey Lartigue, Cato.org, May 17, 2002

"Preschool is No Answer," by David Salisbury, USA Today, January 10, 2002

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Speeches and Congressional Testimony

"Testimony by Darcy Ann Olsen, Child Care," February 23, 1998.