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"Boosting School Readiness: Should Preschool Teachers Target Skills or the Whole Child?"

5/8/2018

 
Assistant Professor Jade Marcus Jenkins is lead author on a new article accepted for publication in Economics of Education Review: "Boosting School Readiness: Should Preschool Teachers Target Skills or the Whole Child?"

Abstract

We use experimental data to estimate impacts on school readiness of different kinds of preschool curricula – a largely neglected preschool input and measure of preschool quality. We find that the widely-used “whole-child” curricula found in most Head Start and pre-K classrooms produced higher classroom process quality than did locally-developed curricula, but failed to improve children's school readiness. A curriculum focused on building mathematics skills increased both classroom math activities and children's math achievement relative to the whole-child curricula. Similarly, curricula focused on literacy skills increased literacy achievement relative to whole-child curricula, despite failing to boost measured classroom process quality.

Jenkins, J. M., Duncan, G. J., Auger, A., Bitler, M., Domina, T., & Burchinal, M. (2018). Boosting school readiness: Should preschool teachers target skills or the whole child? Economics of Education Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2018.05.001

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