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Aurora, Melina; Farkas, George – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study provides estimates for the impact of centre-based care participation during pre-kindergarten on Latino children's academic readiness skills at kindergarten-entry. Using the ECLS-K:2011 dataset, findings indicate that Latino children who participated in centre-based care during their pre-kindergarten year had significantly higher English…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Care, Child Care Centers, Kindergarten
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Christina Stephens; Robert C. Pianta; Jessica E. Whittaker; Virginia E. Vitiello – Grantee Submission, 2025
Dual language learner children (DLLs) benefit from early childhood education (ECE) and learning multiple languages, but research has predominantly focused on English monolingual children, with limited insight on the ECE and early development of DLLs. This study investigated whether DLLs' developmental assets assessed at pre-k entry (i.e. English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Holliday, Matthew R.; Cimetta, Adriana; Cutshaw, Christina A.; Yaden, David; Marx, Ronald W. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2014
The economic status of families and their children's learning outcomes are closely related. For example, children living in poverty tend to score worse on measures of reading and math performance than their more affluent peers, and this achievement gap is present by kindergarten. In this study, we identified protective factors associated with…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Poverty, Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement