James J. Heckman, in his (and Pedro Carniero’s) book Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?, is correct in stating that tuition policies are not the major issue in completing education when it comes to low-income families but rather the child’s experiences and skill-development in their early years. Word for word, he is quoted as saying “We cannot rely on tuition policy applied in the child’s adolescent years, job training, or GED programs to compensate for the neglect the child experienced in the early years” (qtd in Spring 104). Many case studies highlight the importance of preschool, which Joel Spring summarizes in American Education as, “[Preschool is] designed to give children from low-income families a head start
