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Review of Off Track: An Assessment of Wisconsin's Early Care and Learning System for Young Children

Think Twice - Jan 31, 2023

Publisher/Think Tank - Badger Institute

Author(s) - Angela Rachidi

The Badger report presents data on trends in Wisconsin's ECE system. It then identifies government regulations-particularly those focused on improving teacher-child interactions--as a problem, concluding that those regulations have limited supply, decreased parental choice in providers, and increased costs. Its recommendations include reducing continuous improvement efforts focused on quality while increasing performance accountability (aka testing burdens), consolidating state agencies, and increasing parental control over use of government childcare subsidies.


Reviewer(s) - W. Steven Barnett, Rutgers University

W. Steven Barnett, Rutgers professor and Senior Co-Director of the National Institute for Early Education Research, reviewed Off Track: An Assessment of Wisconsin's Early Care and Learning System for Young Children and found it to be flawed in its methodology and in its central premise.