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The Pandemic as a Portal: On Transformative Ruptures and Possible Futures for Education. Occasional Paper Series 46
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Boldt, Gail, Ed. – Bank Street College of Education, 2021
This issue of the Bank Street "Occasional Paper Series" is authored by an allgirl/womxn cast who brilliantly offers insights into possible futures, considering opportunities to rethink education and abolish the patterns of harm too-often enacted in and by schooling as it currently exists. This special issue begins with four articles…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Minority Group Students, Futures (of Society)
What Works Clearinghouse Quick Review: "Increasing Young Children's Contact with Print during Shared Reading--Longitudinal Effects on Literacy Achievement"
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2012
The study examined the impact of Project STAR (Sit Together and Read) on literacy skills of preschool students. Project STAR is a program in which teachers read books aloud to their students and use instructional techniques designed to encourage children to pay attention to print within storybooks. Eighty-five preschool classrooms were randomly…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Programs, Emergent Literacy
A Program Evaluation Comparison of a Head Start and Public School Kindergarten Reading Curriculum
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Jennings, Tanesha – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In order for students to be successful in school, strong foundations are needed at the earliest grades. In a district in central Mississippi, many students entering public school from Head Start were not able to identify alphabet letters or produce letter sounds, based on results of the 2011 Standardized Test for the Assessment of Reading (STAR).…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Kindergarten, Early Childhood Education, Alignment (Education)
Improving Quality for Child Care Centers in Greater Philadelphia: An Evaluation of Success by 6®. Final Report. Publication #2016-07
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Warner-Richter, Mallory; Lowe, Claire; Tout, Kathryn; Epstein, Dale; Li, Weilin – Child Trends, 2016
The Success By 6® (SB6) initiative is designed to support early care and education centers in improving and sustaining quality in Pennsylvania's Keystone STARS Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). This SB6 evaluation report examines implementation and outcomes. The findings have implications for SB6 continous quality improvement process…
Descriptors: Success, Research Reports, Child Care Centers, Educational Improvement
WWC Review of the Report "Increasing Young Children's Contact with Print during Shared Reading: Longitudinal Effects on Literacy Achievement"
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2012
The study examined the impact of the "Project STAR" ("Sit Together and Read") reading program on the literacy skills of preschool students. Researchers randomly assigned 85 preschool classrooms in Ohio to one of three study groups at the start of the 2004-05 or 2005-06 school years: (1) A high-dose intervention group, in which…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Literacy, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Instruction
Quality Rating Systems--The Experiences of Center Directors
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Friedman, Dana E. – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2007
Quality Rating System (QRS) initiatives define levels of quality based on research and then support providers with funding and technical assistance to increase their quality. Each program is assessed and given a number of "stars" to indicate to parents what level of quality the program has reached. In this article, the author describes…
Descriptors: Administrators, Child Care Centers, Rating Scales, Program Evaluation