It's not about "empowering tomorrow's leaders," it's about leviathan getting its claws into innocent young human skulls

New study by the Peabody Research Institute at Vanderbilt University concludes that preschool doesn't do a thing for kids intellectually or socially.

Even those who inclined to advocate for policies based on other conclusions have to concede that this bodes ill for the bureaucratization of early childhood:

“I see these findings as devastating for advocates of the expansion of state pre-k programs,” wrote Russ Whitehurst, director of Brookings Institution education studies. “Maybe we should figure out how to deliver effective programs before the federal government funds preschool for all.”

There's a huge push for this stuff in the city where I live.  I've always sensed it was really about the gravy train for a bunch of pointy-heads and ed-school grads, who have a vested interest in raising a generation of cattle-humans, as opposed to making kids ready for the challenges of the twenty-first century.