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Stockman, Ida J.; Guillory, Barbara; Seibert, Marilyn; Boult, Johanna – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2013
Purpose: The authors set out to determine (a) whether African American children's spontaneous spoken language met use criteria for a revised minimal competence core with original and added morphosyntactic patterns at different geographical locations, and (b) whether pass/fail status on this core was differentiated on other criterion measures of…
Descriptors: African American Children, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Child Language
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Huang, Francis L.; Invernizzi, Marcia A.; Drake, E. Allison – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
This study investigated the differential and persistent effects of a state-funded pre-K program, the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI). We analyzed data from a cohort of over 60,000 students nested in approximately 1000 schools from the beginning of kindergarten to the end of first grade using two-level hierarchical logistic regression models.…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Kindergarten, Grade 1, Probability
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Revaz, Cris; Gragert, Edwin H. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
As part of the ongoing planning and debate around the next set of global development goals to replace the expiring Millennium Development Goals, in July 2012 the UN Secretary General commissioned "a high level panel of eminent persons" from 27 countries to make recommendations on the development agenda beyond 2015. After conducting…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Preschool Education, Elementary Education, Secondary Education