Sentences with phrase «study kindergarten class»

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To examine the developmental origins of civic engagement in children growing up in poverty, the researchers used the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Class (ECLS - K), developed by the U.S. Department of Education.

The researchers used the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class 1998 - 99 (ECLS - K), which followed a nationally representative sample of kindergarteners from the 1998 - 1999 school year through 2006 - 2007, at which time the majority of participants were enrolled in 8th grade.

Published earlier this month in the electronic journal Education Policy Analysis Archives, the study is based on California's recent experiences at reducing class sizes to 20 or fewer students in kindergarten through the 3rd grade.

Class size is more important than the length of the school day in the achievement of disadvantaged kindergarten children, concludes a study by the Chicago Board of Education.

My own and other studies show that children from low - income families enter kindergarten a year to a year and a half, on average, behind middle - class children in their language and many other cognitive skills.This is a gigantic lag considering that they are only five to six years old.

The study also suggests that the benefits of small classes increase as students move from kindergarten to grade 3.

Though it is difficult to isolate the effects of redshirting from those of other characteristics, such as family background, two recent studies that take advantage of either variation in state birthday cut - off dates or the random assignment of students to kindergarten classrooms have enabled researchers to measure the impact of being among the oldest students in a class.

Data from 22,000 children involved in this study of the kindergarten class of 1998 — 99 show that, after controlling for family income, children who attended more academically oriented preschools had significantly higher scores in reading, math, and general knowledge when tested in the fall of their kindergarten year than children in preschool settings without academic content.

Raj Chetty, a professor of economics at Harvard, in 2010 published a study that estimates that having an above - average kindergarten teacher in a classroom of 20 will generate about $ 320,000 more in total lifetime earnings for each of his or her students, compared to the same class with a below - average teacher.

For instance, kindergarten teacher Susan Friend had no idea where to get skunk scat and fox urine to attract the animals that her class hoped to study for their scent stations project (see below).

Eva Phillips, early childhood consultant for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, has been studying how kindergarten teachers use class time.

In essence, the Tennessee study shows that students in substantially smaller classes in their first year of schooling (whether kindergarten or 1st grade) perform better than those remaining in classes of larger size.

Full - day and Half - day Kindergarten in the United States: Findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998 - 99.

Quality - comparison studies are vital to making sure that the low - income children that Head Start was designed to help are actually getting the boost they need to keep up with their middle - class counterparts in kindergarten.

America's Kindergartners: Findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998 - 99, Fall 1998, NCES 2000 - 070, by Jerry West, Kristin Denton, and Elvie Germino - Hausken

This study utilized data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998 - 99 to examine the longitudinal effects of delayed, early or on - time kindergarten enrollment and relative age on children's reading and mathematics achievement from kindergarten to third gstudy utilized data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998 - 99 to examine the longitudinal effects of delayed, early or on - time kindergarten enrollment and relative age on children's reading and mathematics achievement from kindergarten to third gStudy, Kindergarten Class of 1998 - 99 to examine the longitudinal effects of delayed, early or on - time kindergarten enrollment and relative age on children's reading and mathematics achievement from kindergarten to Kindergarten Class of 1998 - 99 to examine the longitudinal effects of delayed, early or on - time kindergarten enrollment and relative age on children's reading and mathematics achievement from kindergarten to kindergarten enrollment and relative age on children's reading and mathematics achievement from kindergarten to kindergarten to third grade.

First - time kindergartners in 2010 — 11: First findings from the kindergarten rounds of the early childhood longitudinal study, kindergarten class of 2010 — 11