At [the Teachers College's] Fourth Annual Symposium on Educational Equity, a star-studded cast of researchers, educators and policymakers argued for nothing less than a full-scale attempt to combat poverty.... [Sharon Lynn Kagan] applauded the fact that "a movement toward universalizing early learning services for all prekindergarten children is taking root in the nation." But, Kagan said, access to quality pre-K programs is income-stratified in the United States. "Without equitable access to quality services early childhood faces the challenges of doing more but doing it poorly."
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