Sentences with phrase «beginning of kindergarten»

Their focus is on the relationship between end of kindergarten test scores and adult earnings, but it is reasonable to assume that similar relationships would hold between beginning of kindergarten test scores and adult earnings.

This was beginning of kindergarten.

«Students attending Brighter Choice Charter School score far below average at the beginning of kindergarten, confirming their at - risk status,» he says.

From the beginning of kindergarten to the end of first grade, black students lose 20 percent of a standard deviation (approximately 10 percent of a standard deviation each year) relative to white students with similar characteristics.

By contrast, Hispanics show gains relative to whites between the beginning of kindergarten and the end of 1st grade (see Figure 2).

Further, a program that provides substantial incentives for parents to substitute institutional care for their children for full days and full years over the entire period from infancy to the beginning of kindergarten for their own care of their children will find many opponents.

A t the beginning of kindergarten, the math and reading achievement gaps between children in the bottom and top income quintiles amount to more than a full standard deviation.

Using a sample of 4,217 children from 287 schools across the country, Downey and his team zoomed in on the change in performance on tests for the children from the beginning of kindergarten through the fall of first grade.

New Mexico's children who attend the state - funded Pre-K program have been found to have achieved significant positive effects in vocabulary, math, and literacy skills at the beginning of kindergarten, according to the fourth in a series of annual reports by NIEER.

There is no pre-test in RDD; the treatment group is assessed at the beginning of kindergarten, after children have completed the preschool program.

A number of the classrooms have high percentages of poverty and minority children, and none of the children could read at the beginning of the kindergarten school year.

Excite and energize students in the summer months with 9 weeks of fun, theme - based units focusing on key skills and objectives from prekindergarten and the beginning of kindergarten.

It compares the effects of Head Start with a measure of variation in test scores (the test score standard deviation) across students at the end of Head Start or the beginning of kindergarten.

After controlling for demographic characteristics and propensity scores resulting from pre-enrollment factors, on average, at the beginning of kindergarten, children whose kindergarten enrollment was delayed had the highest scores in reading and mathematics, followed by children who entered kindergarten on time.