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Farran, Dale C.; Meador, Deanna; Christopher, Caroline; Nesbitt, Kimberly T.; Bilbrey, Laura E. – Child Development, 2017
In 2014-2015 and 2015-2016, a metropolitan school system in the southern United States embarked on a unique mission to improve the quality of its public prekindergarten programs through a partnership with a group of developmental researchers in an iterative, data-based venture. Data on 407 children in Year 1 and 433 in Year 2 (who were enrolled in…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Practices, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
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Weiland, Christina; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Child Development, 2013
Publicly funded prekindergarten programs have achieved small-to-large impacts on children's cognitive outcomes. The current study examined the impact of a prekindergarten program that implemented a coaching system and consistent literacy, language, and mathematics curricula on these and other nontargeted, essential components of school readiness,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Mathematics Skills, Emotional Development