Sentences with phrase «assigned kindergarten classroom»

In my twin boys» randomly assigned kindergarten classroom, some students entered school reading Magic Tree House chapter books, while other students were just learning their letter sounds, a four - grade - level spread among five - year - olds (pre-K to 2nd grade).

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Another study, co-authored by Elizabeth Cascio and Diane Schanzenbach, uses data from the well - known Project STAR experiment in which students were randomly assigned to classrooms prior to kindergarten entry.

In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly assigned to classrooms within their schools from kindergarten to third grade.

Cascio and Schanzenbach estimate the effects of having older peers using data from an experiment where children of the same age were randomly assigned to different kindergarten classrooms.

[12] In this study, which covered a period in the 1980s, students in 80 schools were assigned at random to kindergarten and first - and second - grade classrooms that were designated as large or small.