The Big Lift Preschool, Two Years In: What Have We Learned so Far? Research Brief

Autor/inn/en	Gomez, Celia J.; Whitaker, Anamarie A.; Cannon, Jill S.; Karoly, Lynn A.
Institution	RAND Corporation
Titel	The Big Lift Preschool, Two Years In: What Have We Learned so Far? Research Brief
Quelle	(2018), (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Preschools; Preschool Children; Early Reading; Reading Skills; Literacy; Reading Instruction; Reading Programs; Early Childhood Education; Summer Programs; Kindergarten; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Frühlesen; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Leseunterricht; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Sommerkurs; Kalifornien
Abstract	The Big Lift™ (Big Lift) is a preschool to third-grade initiative designed to boost literacy skills and ensure that children are reading proficiently by the third grade. First launched in 2012 by the County of San Mateo, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the San Mateo County Office of Education, Big Lift comprises more than 300 community organizations. The initiative targets preschool through third-grade students in seven school districts in San Mateo County, California, that have below-average third-grade reading levels. Big Lift seeks to improve third-grade reading through a set of four coordinated and integrated "pillars": High-Quality Preschool, Summer Learning, School Attendance, and Family Engagement. As part of a multiphase, independent evaluation of the Big Lift initiative, researchers at the RAND Corporation are undertaking a series of descriptive reports on participation and achievement outcomes over multiple years. To date, RAND researchers have completed two outcome studies, both focusing on the Big Lift pillars for which data are available: High-Quality Preschool and Summer Learning. The first study in this series examined the early education experiences and kindergarten readiness outcomes of children in the 2016-2017 kindergarten class -- in four "Cohort 1" districts -- who received Big Lift services. The second study in this series, summarized here, builds on these initial analyses. RAND researchers examined kindergarten readiness outcomes of children in the 2017-2018 kindergarten class in the Cohort 1 districts and in three additional "Cohort 2" districts. The researchers also followed up on the 2016-2017 kindergarten class by documenting their reading skills at the end of kindergarten and the start of first grade in the fall of 2017. Although the study contains analyses of the Big Lift Inspiring Summer program -- a free five- or four-week summer program for lower-income rising kindergartners, first-graders, and second-graders -- this brief focuses on the Big Lift preschool findings. [This brief describes work done in "The Big Lift Descriptive Analyses: Kindergarten Readiness and Elementary School Reading Outcomes for the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 Kindergarten Classes" (ED595011) and "Big Lift Participation and School Entry Indicators: Findings for the 2016-2017 Kindergarten Class" (ED595013).] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01