Preschool

For the last decade, NIEER has tracked the policies of state-funded preschool programs through its State Preschool Yearbook.

Will state and federal testing programs advance the goal of school readiness for all children?

The education of American children begins long before they enter a kindergarten classroom.

In January 2003, Columbia University’s Institute for Child and Family Policy, the National Prekindergarten Center at the University of North Carolina, and the Foundation for Child Development hosted an invitational, half-day conference entitled, Setting a Research Agenda for Prekindergarten.

Inadequacies both in the provision and the quality of early childhood education in the United States are well documented.

In this essay, Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at Yale University, proposes that a better, research-based use of Title I funds would be to build on the benefits of quality Prekindergarten by focusing Title I funds on the early elementary grades.