Early Learning: Return on Investment
              
        SREB Annotated Bibliography, 2014
          
        
            
        Findings in these studies identify specific elements in pre-K programs that are most beneficial. Evidence from state programs in Arkansas, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and West Virginia is also instructive. Studies provide a sampling of research on policy topics with nationwide applicability.
  •   Cost-benefit and effect size analyses of pre-K
  programs
  •   Catch up vs. fade out: Do pre-K’s positive effects
  persist through K-12?
  •   Evaluations of pre-K programs in SREB states
