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From the summary: “More than half of all state-funded pre-kindergarten (pre-K) programs now require lead teachers to earn a bachelor’s degree or higher, as do many city-funded pre-K programs, yet salaries and benefits for pre-K teachers are consistently lower than the average salary for public school elementary school teachers. While these ...
From the Abstract: "This study is a randomized control trial of full- versus half-day pre-kindergarten in a school district near Denver, Colorado. Four-year-old children were randomly assigned an offer of half-day (four days/week) or full-day (five days/week) pre-k that increased class time by over 600 hours.
are enrolled in full day early childhood education programming provided by the Rochester City School District, Community Based Organizations (CBO), and Head Start (Infurna et al., 2016). Teachers are tasked with completing cognitive and social-emotional assessments on their children in the fall and spring of the academic year.
When pre-K accountability systems include observational quality measures, programs and teachers do show improvements on the measures over time.5 In intervention studies, too, when professional development is tied to these measures, pre-K teachers also show marked improve-ments when compared with business-as-usual practices. 6
The pandemic set pre-K enroll-ment and funding back further, with an enrollment decline of nearly 300,000 children and state spending remaining relatively flat.1 As children and families return to public pre-K, state policymakers must focus on investing in program expansion and strengthening quality. Those eforts should start with a pre-K ...
This represented 17.9% of the then current population of 4-year-olds in Alabama. During PDG Year 2 (2016-2017 school year; as of December 1, 2016), combined funds supported access for 14,598 of the state's 59,667 current 4-year-olds (as of December 1, 2016). This represents 24.5% of 4-year-olds in Alabama.
This 2010 report, authored by Marisa Bueno, Linda Darling-Hammond and Danielle Gonzales, reviewed research on training for pre-k teachers and concluded that educators with at least a bachelor's degree coupled with specialized training in early childhood are best able to foster development of the cognitive, social and emotional skills children ...
In community samples, more than two thirds of children in the U.S. report experience a traumatic event by age 16. One out of every four children in school has been exposed to a traumatic event. Approximately two out of three children has been exposed to violence. 50% who were victimized reported more than one type of victimization.