Early childhood education programs often yield larger benefits for children most in need, such as low-income children, children of color, and those with fewer educational resources¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2023 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Early childhood education programs often yield larger benefits for children who are most in need, such as children from low-income families, children of color, and those living in environments with fewer educational resources. → High-Quality Early Child Education is Associated With 2023

Evidence¶

High-Quality Early Child Education is Associated With 2023¶

High-Quality Early Child Education is Associated With... (2023). Regional Educational Laboratory West, WestEd. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/west

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The summary reports, citing Watts et al. (2023) on heterogeneity in public preschool impacts, that ECE "often yield larger benefits" for low-income children, children of color, and children in resource-poor environments. No effect sizes printed.

"Early Childhood Education programs often yield larger benefits for children who are most in need, such as children from low-income families, children of color, and those living in environments with fewer educational resources."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Race and Ethnicity — moderator: an instructional effect differs by group

Related Claims¶

• Effects were larger in intervention schools with a higher percentage of economically disadvantaged students or a lower percentage of White students — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it

• Joint Book Reading Predicts Literacy Success — related

• Parent Involvement Improves Early Reading — related
• Pre-kindergarten attendance predicts college enrollment across racial and ethnic groups, most strongly four-year enrollment among Black and Hispanic students
• Children with poorer parents suffer more, and children of high school educated parents experience the largest welfare losses — related
• In 2022 only one in nine eligible California children—and one in seven eligible Alameda County children—received subsidized childcare — related
• Schools serving large numbers of students of color and students from low-income families have significantly fewer resources than schools serving more affluent White students — related
• Pre-K benefits were studied among children from low-income homes in a large and diverse county (n = 2,581) — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Household income and maternal work status moderated the childcare–higher education association: formal childcare increased enrollment probability only for low-income and non-working families — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Little evidence of heterogeneity in preschool effects by child characteristics, with suggestive larger behavioral drawbacks for lower-SES children — reports the opposite