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Davies, Randall S.; Cress, Susan – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2010
Most people agree that young children benefit academically from attending kindergarten; however, some research suggests that any academic advantage attributed to attending full day kindergarten compared to half-day programs will disappear as early as third grade. Based on the results of this study which looked at students in typical classroom…
Descriptors: Day Programs, Kindergarten, Young Children, Low Achievement
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Chang, Mido; Singh, Kusum – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2008
The goal of this study was to explore the long-term effects of all-day kindergarten programs on children's academic performance. The study used three waves of data from a nationally representative database from the United States, the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS), with the first wave at the beginning of kindergarten and the third wave…
Descriptors: Age, Mathematics Activities, Academic Achievement, Day Programs
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Borman, Geoffrey D.; Goetz, Michael E.; Dowling, N. Maritza – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2009
In this randomized field trial of KindergARTen Camp, a 6-week summer enrichment program in literacy and the fine arts, we analyzed the summer learning outcomes of 93 treatment and 35 control students from high-poverty schools in Baltimore, Maryland. This experiment offers evidence concerning the causal effect of the program on 5 measures of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Summer Programs, Day Camp Programs, Literacy Education
Blose, David T.; Alves, Henry F. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
This bulletin presents statistics of state school systems in 1937-38. For the most part statistics presented in this chapter relate to public elementary and secondary schools in 48 States, the District of Columbia, and the outlying parts of the United States. Such data were submitted by States for nonpublic schools are incorporated in separate…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Statistics, Statistical Surveys, National Surveys