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Designing and Developing the Pennsylvania Early Care and Education Career Pathway System
(2017-05-01)
The early care and education (ECE) workforce plays a vital role in supporting the development of our youngest learners, and putting them on track for a lifetime of success. These critical practitioners work hard for little ...
Leading the Implementation of the Strategies for Children Community Readiness Initiative
(2017-05-02)
Strategies for Children (SFC) is a nonprofit organization that works to expand access to high-quality preschool for all Massachusetts children. In 2015, under the guidance of a revised strategic plan, the organization ...
A Matter of Perspective: An Exploratory Study of the Relationship Between the Early Math Skills and Social Competence of Children From Low-Income Families
(2017-05-05)
The U.S. is calling for expansion of preschool to help close the well-documented income-based achievement gap. Children from low-income families often enter kindergarten academically behind their higher income peers and ...
Teaching and Learning From Mistakes: Teachers’ Responses to Student Mistakes in the Kindergarten Classroom
(2017-05-08)
In Kindergarten classrooms, teachers work to help students learn new information and skills but, as non-experts, students often make mistakes. Making mistakes and, subsequently, receiving corrective feedback are assets to ...
The Causal Effects of Boston’s Prekindergarten Program on Students’ Medium-Term Academic Achievement
(2017-11-07)
In my first paper I use data from four cohorts of students who applied to the Boston Public Schools prekindergarten program between 2007 and 2011 to conduct a lottery-based analysis of the impacts of Boston prekindergarten ...