228. Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late?

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🗓️ 19 November 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In our collective zeal to reform schools and close the achievement gap, we may have lost sight of where most learning really happens -- at home.

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0:00.0	Hey, love it.
0:01.3	Dubner, how are you doing?
0:02.7	Great, welcome to New York.
0:03.9	Yeah, it's good to be here.
0:04.8	We don't often get to do this.
0:05.8	Sit down face to face.
0:07.6	Yeah, because the traffic in New York is so terrible that I stay away.
0:11.4	Why are you here?
0:11.9	You meeting with the Pope today?
0:13.4	Now the Pope, the Pope passed on.
0:15.1	Oh, you meeting with the UN today?
0:17.1	UN passed on me as well.
0:18.4	Just me.
0:19.2	Yeah, just you.
0:20.2	Ha ha.
0:20.7	All right, so, Levit, I understand you've gotten into the early
0:29.8	education business.
0:31.7	Yeah, I think we regretted a little bit.
0:34.2	Roland Friar, John Listonai, went out and really John more than
0:37.9	has started a preschool with the idea that if we were really smart and really
0:43.9	thoughtful, we could do things for three, four, and five
0:47.7	year olds that would change their lives and maybe could be used by the people
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