Why Do Most Education Interventions Fade Out Over Time?

Why Do Most Education Interventions Fade Out Over Time?

For many years, education researchers have puzzled over a common phenomenon known as the “fadeout effect”—that is, that the benefits of education interventions, such as early childhood enrichment programs, often diminish or disappear. Our research team has written extensively about fadeout over the past decade. We have focused on how this issue pertains to early childhood programs, though we have now studied the dynamics of fadeout across a rang…