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 Oklahoma Economic Summit on Early Childhood Investment 

By investing in early childhood, we plant the seeds for economic growth 

Date and location:  July 27, 2009, at the Skirvin Hotel, Oklahoma City

Sponsored by:  Smart Start Oklahoma, OKDHS, Potts Family Foundation, Inasmuch Foundation, American Fidelity Foundation, and George Kaiser Family Foundation

Agenda  

Brochure, pages 1 and 2

Summit Video  

"Change the First Five Years and You Change Everything" video from Ounce of Prevention

President Obama, "The Benefits of Early Childhood Education" and "Why We Must Reach Young Children Early"   

Featured presentations:       

Speaker Robert H. Dugger, Ph.D.
Excerpts from "National Scene: The Long Term View"


"Oklahoma doesn't have a future if we don't educate our children, and that means starting very young."

Rob Dugger is a managing partner and a director at Tudor Investment Corporation, a global asset management company with $18 billion of investor funds.  He is an expert on government policy assessment and the effects of policy on domestic and global markets and financial institutions.  Dugger was policy director at the American Bankers Association.  He helped develop the solution to the U.S. savings and loan problem.  He started with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the early 1970s and served as a senior staff member of both the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee in the 1980s.  Dugger is also involved in several projects focused on ascertaining and communicating the economic growth and job creation value of investing early in the lives of children.  He has a bachelor’s degree from Davidson College and a PhD in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Speaker James J. Heckman, Ph.D.
Excerpts from "Return on Investment: Cost vs. Benefits," Part 1, Part 2

"Child care is more than a social issue, it's an economic issue."

"We need to think of education in a broader view, and get an early start!"

James J. Heckman shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.  He is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, serving since 1973.  He directs the Economics Research Center and the Center for Social Program Evaluation at the Harris School for Public Policy.  He is the professor of science and society in University College Dublin and a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation.  Heckman received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics at Colorado College in 1965 and his PhD in economics at Princeton University in 1971.  His work is devoted to the development of a scientific basis for economic policy evaluation.  Heckman has published more than 250 articles and several books.  He is finishing a book on the problem of noncognitive skills in America.  He has received numerous awards.

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