Sentences with phrase «through kindergarten entry»

Last year, President Obama called upon Congress to expand access to high - quality preschool for every child in America, proposing investments that would support a continuum of early learning opportunity from birth through kindergarten entry.

Training modules were completed that address the purpose of assessments and how assessments support positive learning experiences for children birth through kindergarten entry.

Ohio has designed a professional development series to support the use of assessment in programs serving children from birth through kindergarten entry.

Cascio's paper uses data collected on children born in 2001 and followed through kindergarten entry by the National Center for Education Statistics» Early Childhood Longitudinal Study.

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Ayoub and Pan plan to follow the children in their part of the study through their entry into kindergarten to gauge the longer - term impacts.

The results are based on students who enter charter schools in kindergarten through grade 5, the grades of entry for which we can confidently estimate effects.

The problem with this design is that all the children who did not make it successfully through pre-k because they dropped out or moved are absent from the program group, which is tested at entry into kindergarten, whereas all the children who will eventually experience conditions that lead them to drop out are still in the control group.

One way for schools and kindergarten teachers to tailor instruction to meet the needs of individual students is through using data from a kindergarten entry assessment (KEA).

Approximately 10700 US children born in 2001 were followed through data collection visits at 9 months, 2 years, preschool, and kindergarten entry, at which times data were collected via interview, questionnaire, and structured developmental or physical assessments.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

Would increasing the amount of instruction that children receive, offered through a summer enrichment program right before kindergarten entry, lead to stronger child outcomes?

HomVEE provides an assessment of the evidence of effectiveness for home visiting program models that target families with pregnant women and children from birth to kindergarten entry (i.e., up through age 5).