Sentences with phrase «pre-k test score effects»

The fading of pre-K test score effects by third grade found in Tennessee and in the Head Start experiment occurs almost universally, and in particular occurs in programs such as Perry Preschool that show very large adult benefits.

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Gormley finds that Tulsa's pre-k program has significant effects on test scores at kindergarten readiness for all three groups.

For example, the research evidence in a study I co-authored of Tulsa's universal preschool program suggests that test score effects of pre-K for middle - income children are 90 % as large as those for low - income children.

Based on available studies of the relationship between early test scores and later earnings, we would also expect the dollar effects of Tulsa pre-K on future earnings for middle - class kids to be 90 % as great.

For students as a whole, the overall effects of the Tulsa pre-K program are: a 52 percent gain in the Letter - Word Identification test score; a 27 percent gain in the spelling test score; and a 21 percent gain in the applied problems test score.

find that the Tulsa state - funded «universal» pre-K program, compared to Tulsa's Head Start programs, has about twice the immediate effects on cognitive test scores at kindergarten entrance.