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30 Jun 2016
Report

Primary Early Care and Education Arrangements and Achievement at Kindergarten Entry

Amy Rathbun and Anlan Zhang

Young children experience various types of early care and education environments the year before they enter kindergarten. Some children attend  center-based arrangements such as preschools, childcare centers, or Head Start programs, while others are cared for in relatives’ or nonrelatives’ homes or are normally cared for only by their parents.

This report builds upon prior work by using the most recently available data to explore relationships between children’s primary care and education arrangements the year before kindergarten and their academic skills and learning behaviors at kindergarten entry, after accounting for child and family background characteristics.

Primary Early Care and Education Arrangements and Achievement at Kindergarten Entry

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Children Who Primarily Attended Early Childcare Centers Before Kindergarten Start School With Higher Math and Reading Scores, AIR Researchers Find

Children who primarily attended day care, preschool and other types of center-based care in the year before kindergarten earned higher scores in math and reading and had stronger learning and cognitive flexibility skills than their peers who had no such early care and education arrangements, according to a new report produced by AIR for the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics.

Further Reading

  • Children Who Primarily Attended Early Childcare Centers Before Kindergarten Start School With Higher Math and Reading Scores, AIR Researchers Find
  • Condition of Education Looks at Changes in the Cost of Nonparental Childcare
  • Growing Up in Foster Care: Our Littlest Ones
  • In Conversation: Insights on Early Childhood Care Costs and Choices
  • The Children Born in 2001 at Kindergarten Entry: First Findings From the Kindergarten Data Collections of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
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