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ERIC Number: EJ1322050
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Dec
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0013-189X
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Racial Disparities in Pre-K Quality: Evidence from New York City's Universal Pre-K Program
Latham, Scott; Corcoran, Sean P.; Sattin-Bajaj, Carolyn; Jennings, Jennifer L.
Educational Researcher, v50 n9 p607-617 Dec 2021
New York City's universal prekindergarten (pre-K) program, which increased full-day enrollment from 19,000 to almost 70,000 children, is ambitious in both scale and implementation speed. We provide new evidence on the distribution of pre-K quality in New York City by student race/ethnicity, and investigate the extent to which observed differences are associated with the spatial distribution of higher quality providers. Relative to other jurisdictions, we find the average quality of public pre-K providers is high. However, we identify large disparities in the average quality of providers experienced by Black and White students, which is partially explained by differential proximity to higher quality providers. Taken together, current racial disparities in the quality of pre-K providers may limit the program's ability to reduce racial achievement gaps.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale; Classroom Assessment Scoring System
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