ABSTRACT
The president of the US office in 2010 released a fact sheet titled Promoting Early Learning for Success in School and in Life. In the statement’s opening sentence President Barak Obama is described as ‘committed to creating a 21st century workforce’ and as viewing early learning programs as ‘an integral component to creating an educational system that is internationally competitive’. Oklahoma Champions for Early Opportunities provides speakers who attend organizational meetings to speak in favor of increased funding for early childhood education. The Gates Foundation uses the same comparison between brain development and financial investment in its detailed proposal to fund model early learning centers in Washington State, and indeed versions appear in many places. Universal intervention programs aim to deliver to a whole population some program or treatment which promotes practices believed to improve the life chances of every individual.
