"""Not everyone is convinced, though. Laura Byrne at Red Alert Politics says that the evidence of the Perry Project's success is too flimsy to justify spending billions on Obama's preschool initiative when the country's already $16.4 trillion in debt. Just because academics found that the kids in the Perry experiment were more likely than their outside peers to graduate from high school and get a well-paying job, doesn't mean that success will be repeated everywhere.

What they don't tell you is that this study used a very small sample size and would be very hard to recreate, according to The Heritage Foundation. Not to mention, no other preschool program has been nearly as successful as the Perry Program.

In fact, studies by Stanford University and the University of California showed that attending preschool can actually cause bad behavior, not reduce it like Obama claims, possibly because students are spending less time with their parents at such a crucial age."""