Pre-School Education
W. Steven Barnett, Ph.D.
Board of Governors Professor of Education
Director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)
Rutgers University
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Dr. W. Steven BarnettW. Steven Barnett, Ph.D. is Board of Governors Professor of Education and Director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University. Dr. Barnett is an internationally recognized expert on early childhood policy and programs who has served as consultant to scores of states and national leaders in the United States and numerous countries around the world. His research includes wide ranging studies on early childhood policy and economics including: research on long-term effects of early education programs; benefit-cost analyses of the Perry Preschool and Abecedarian programs; randomized trials of alternative approaches to educating bilingual/migrant populations and the Tools of the Mind curriculum (focusing on executive function); and, the series of State Preschool Yearbooks providing annual state-by-state analyses of progress in public pre-K. Recent publications include “Effectiveness of early educational intervention” in the journal Science. Dr. Barnett earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
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