By Stephen P. Hinshaw and Richard Scheffler
Berkeley, Calif. — The writing is on the chalkboard. Over the next few years, America can count on a major expansion of early childhood education. We embrace this trend, but as health policy researchers, we want to raise a major caveat: Unless we’re careful, today’s preschool bandwagon could lead straight to an epidemic of 4- and 5-year-olds wrongfully being told that they have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Continue reading this op-ed at The New York Times, “Expand Pre-K, Not ADHD.”