Jade Marcus Jenkins|Greg J. Duncan|Anamarie Auger|Marianne Bitler|Thurston Domina|Margaret Burchinal
Boosting school readiness: Should preschool teachers target skills or the whole child?
University of California, Irvine|University of California, Irvine|RAND Corporation|University of California, Davis|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
use experimental data estimate impacts school readiness different kinds preschool curricula largely neglected preschool input measure preschool quality find widelyused wholechild curricula found head start prek classrooms produced higher classroom process quality locallydeveloped curricula failed improve childrens school readiness curriculum focused building mathematics skills increased classroom math activities childrens math achievement relative wholechild curricula similarly curricula focused literacy skills increased literacy achievement relative wholechild curricula despite failing boost measured classroom process quality