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Direct linkElsie Agustina Rosa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation aims to elucidate the complexities of chronic absenteeism in Head Start Programs post-COVID-19 to enhance early childhood education practices and policies. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the study investigates the causes of absenteeism by surveying and interviewing 50 participants from a Head Start Program in the New York…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Truancy, Federal Programs, Low Income Students
Cara L. Kelly – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Quality in early care and education (ECE) has been widely studied across several decades. There is not one standard definition of quality across ECE contexts. However, classroom quality often encompasses both structural features of quality, such as teacher-child ratios and teachers' qualifications, and process features of quality, such as…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Teacher Attitudes
Dilara Yaya-Bryson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Assuring the quality of early childhood education (ECE) settings is a fundamental consideration for supporting young children's learning and development. Head Start programs serve children and families living in poverty, highlighting the need for equitable and high-quality learning opportunities for these vulnerable populations, and the ECE…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services, Early Childhood Education
Kathryn Eveline Webb Gonzalez – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Recent policy efforts in early care and education (ECE) have aimed to ensure that all children have access to high-quality ECE programming. However, there is debate about how to most effectively improve ECE quality at scale. The three papers in this dissertation provide new insights into the impacts of two widely-used policies aimed at improving…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement
Brittany Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Quality in early childhood education (ECE) is central to equitable child development and preparation for formal schooling and has been widely studied by researchers and of interest to policy makers. As the federal pre-k program, Head Start is a key ECE context to understand quality and its implications for equity. One central measure of classroom…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services
Erica Hilary Greenberg – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation offers empirical evidence for the ongoing debates over targeted and universal preschool. Specifically, I ask: (1) Does universal preschool narrow socioeconomic achievement gaps? (2) To what extent, and under what conditions, does the American public prefer universal to targeted preschool? (3) Is universal preschool better funded…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Access to Education, Educational Quality, Academic Achievement
