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Promoting Content-Enriched Alignment across the Early Grades: A Study of Policies & Practices in the Boston Public Schools
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McCormick, Meghan P.; Weiland, Christina; Hsueh, JoAnn; Maier, Michelle; Hagos, Rama; Snow, Catherine; Leacock, Nicole; Schick, Laura – Grantee Submission, 2019
As states and districts expand access to publicly funded PreK programs, researchers and policymakers have been grappling with experimental evidence demonstrating that the benefits of PreK on academic skills are not likely to last into early elementary school. A leading hypothesis to explain this phenomenon is that PreK and the elementary grades…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Alignment (Education)
Economically Disadvantaged Children's Transitions into Elementary School: Linking Family Processes, School Contexts, and Educational Policy
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Crosnoe, Robert; Cooper, Carey E. – American Educational Research Journal, 2010
Working from a core perspective on the developmental implications of economic disadvantage, this study attempted to identify "family-based" mechanisms of economic effects on early learning and their potential "school-based" remedies. Multilevel analysis of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort revealed that…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Teacher Qualifications, Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth