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Class and Parents' Agency in West Virginia: Between Choices and Rights
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Sherfinski, Melissa – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2013
Universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) is a popular reform in West Virginia, offering part-time readiness-oriented instruction for four-year-olds and some three-year-olds with special needs. The reform joins public school sites and community partners (private preschool and/or Head Start resources) in the goal of pre-kindergarten for all eligible…
Descriptors: Parent Rights, Access to Education, Preschool Education, Young Children
West Virginia's Progress toward Universal Prekindergarten. Issues & Answers. REL 2009-No. 070
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Cavalluzzo, Linda; Clinton, Yvette; Holian, Laura; Marr, Linda; Taylor, Lydotta – Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2009
The report examines rates of participation in West Virginia's universal, voluntary prekindergarten (PreK) program from 2002-03 to 2006-07. It describes the share of seats provided by collaborative partners and public school systems and analyzes participation rates by demographic and socioeconomic subgroup and county characteristics. Reported…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Income, Preschool Education, Educational Finance
Providing Preschool Education for All 4-Year-Olds: Lessons from Six State Journeys. Preschool Policy Brief. Issue 18
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Ackerman, Debra J.; Barnett, W. Steven; Hawkinson, Laura E.; Brown, Kirsty; McGonigle, Elizabeth A. – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2009
State-funded voluntary prekindergarten programs have grown steadily over the past decade and now enroll more than one million children. While the overall trend has been one of increasing participation in publicly funded preschool education, access in most states is limited to select groups of disadvantaged or otherwise-at-risk 4-year-olds.…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Young Children, Public Education, Access to Education
Early Education Quality Improvement Project Profiles of Excellence: Exemplary Programs Serving West Virginia's Young Children and Their Families.
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West Virginia Governor's Cabinet on Children and Families, Charleston. – 1997
This document describes the 25 exemplary programs serving young children and their families in West Virginia. The programs were participating in the final stages of a process for state recognition as an exemplary program by the Early Education Quality Improvement Project Committee of the Governor's Early Childhood Implementation Commission in West…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Quality, Preschool Education, Program Descriptions
Is It Time for Universal Pre-K?
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Gormley, William T., Jr. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2005
Preschool is not a new idea, at least not for disadvantaged children. The Head Start program, which originated in 1965, sought to give poor preschool-aged children the skills they would need to succeed in school. Head Start currently reaches half of eligible 4-year-olds and a smaller number of younger children. What is new is the emergence of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education, Educational Change, Program Effectiveness
Early Development of Low-Income Rural Appalachian Children. Rural Health Monograph Series.
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Fish, Margaret; Jacquet, Ellen; Frye, Hadassah – 2002
The Rural Appalachian Infant Temperament Project followed a group of 80 low-income rural Appalachian children from birth to kindergarten, focusing on two areas of child development: social/emotional functioning and cognitive skills. Subjects were recruited at a Lincoln County, West Virginia, clinic; all were white; and 73 percent had family…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems, Child Development, Cognitive Development