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Anna D. Johnson; Anne Partika; Anne Martin; Ian Lyons; Sherri Castle; Deborah A. Phillips; The Tulsa SEED Study Team – AERA Open, 2024
Public preschool boosts academic skills in kindergarten, but little is known about whether that boost lasts to third grade because many studies stop directly assessing children after kindergarten. The current study tests for sustained associations between preschool attendance and an array of repeatedly measured, directly assessed language and math…
Descriptors: Public Education, Preschool Education, Outcomes of Education, Predictor Variables
Harding, Jessica F.; Nguyen, Tutrang; Malone, Lizabeth; Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Tarullo, Louisa; Aikens, Nikki – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
In spring 2020, in response to the COVID-19 (for coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, many early care and education centers, including Head Start centers, closed their physical buildings and changed their operations to virtual. Because of health and safety restrictions, OPRE was unable to directly assess children's skills in spring 2020 for the…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Experience
Hee Jin Bang; Amanda Siebert-Evenstone – Age of Learning, Inc., 2023
This study evaluated the implementation and effectiveness of My Math Academy and My Reading Academy, two digital learning programs, in supporting early math and literacy skill development during the 2021-2022 school year in Tyler Independent School District, Texas. In a district where 85% of students were eligible for free and reduced-price meals,…
Descriptors: Social Services, Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Preschool Education
Madelyn Gardner; Emily C. Hanno; Wendy S. Wei; Rosa Guzman Turco; Stepanie M. Jones; Nonie K. Lesaux – Grantee Submission, 2023
The current study analyzed patterns of neighborhood socioeconomic match across 3- and 4-year-old children's (N = 2,029) residential and preschool neighborhoods in Massachusetts. Most children (80%) lived and attended early education and care in different neighborhoods. Children in households with the lowest incomes and those whose families…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Socioeconomic Status, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Haya Shamir; Kathryn Feehan; Erik Yoder – Online Submission, 2016
This study investigates the impact of adding an adaptive computer assisted instruction (CAI) program to current Head Start curriculum on low SES, African American pre-kindergarten students' reading and math gains. Students completed pre- and post-testing with a standardized reading and math measure in order to determine relative gains. The results…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Federal Programs, Low Income Students