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Meghan McCormick; Mirjana Pralica; JoAnn Hsueh; Christina Weiland; Amanda Ketner Weissman; Anna Shapiro; Samantha Xia; Cullen MacDowell; Samuel Maves; Anne Taylor; Jason Sachs – AERA Open, 2023
This study leverages six years of public prekindergarten (pre-K) and kindergarten data (N = 22,469) from the Boston Public Schools (BPS) to examine enrollment in BPS pre-K from 2012-2017 for students from different racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, and linguistic groups. The largest differences in enrollment emerged with respect to race and…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Preschool Education, Educational Quality, School Location
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Early, Diane M.; Li, Weilin; Maxwell, Kelly L.; Ponder, Bentley D. – AERA Open, 2019
Propensity score matching was used to compare third-grade test scores in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies for children who had and had not participated in Georgia's Pre-K 4 years earlier. After matching, each group included 46,262 children (mean age 8.36 years in third grade). In all subject areas, children who had…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Standardized Tests, Scores
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Spencer, Trina D.; Moran, Meghan; Thompson, Marilyn S.; Petersen, Douglas B.; Restrepo, M. Adelaida – AERA Open, 2020
The purpose of this cluster randomized group study was to investigate the effect of multitiered, dual-language instruction on children's oral language skills, including vocabulary, narrative retell, receptive and expressive language, and listening comprehension. The participants were 3- to 5-year-old children (n = 81) who were learning English and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Oral Language, Language Skills, Vocabulary Skills