Early care and education in the United States is in crisis. The period between birth and kindergarten is a crucial time for a child's development. Yet vast racial, ethnic, and …
This study leverages naturally occurring lotteries for oversubscribed Boston Public Schools prekindergarten program sites between 2007 and 2011, for 3,182 children (M= 4.5 years …
Rates of expulsion from early care and education settings (eg, childcare and preschool programs) exceed those in K‐12, and relatively little is known of how to prevent such …
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on US early education programs. Our collaborative network of five research teams …
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 …
Food routines are an ecocultural asset of Latino families. This cluster‐randomized trial with 248 children (Mage= 67 months; 50% girls; 13 schools) investigated the impact of a 4‐week …
Abstract Children in the United States are being expelled from their early care and education settings at alarming rates. A growing body of research indicates that teachers' perceptions of …
In 2019, Chicago began transitioning from a targeted pre-K program to free, full-day universal pre-K (UPK). By design, the transition intended to expand capacity over a few …
L Weixler, J Valant, D Bassok… - … and Policy Analysis, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Enrolling in publicly funded early childhood education involves searching for programs, applying, verifying eligibility, and registering with the program. Many families do not …