Additional Resources on Pre-K Programs

Minnesota

• Early Learning Services
• Minnesota Governor’s Summit on School Readiness 2006 [PDF]
• Documents from the Minnesota Governor's Summit on School Readiness

Louisiana

• Louisiana Department of Education: Standards, Assessments, and Accountability, Early Childhood Education Programs
• LA 4 & Starting Points Pre-Kindergarten Program Evaluations
  • 2003-2004 [PDF]
  • 2002-2003 [PDF]

Oklahoma

• Pre-Kindergarten Fact Sheet, 2004: Oklahoma State Department of Education [PDF]
• The Effects of Oklahoma’s Early Childhood Four-Year-Old Program on Young Children’s School Readiness (2005) [PDF]
• Promoting School Readiness in Oklahoma: An Evaluation of Tulsa’s Pre-K Program (2003) [PDF]

New Jersey

• The Effects of New Jersey’s Abbott Preschool Program on Young Children’s School Readiness
  (2005) [PDF]
• Brief Overview of State Funded Pre-Kindergarten Programs in New Jersey
• Office of Early Childhood Education, Department of Education
• Self-Assessment Validation System for Abbott Preschool Programs-Revised, 2005-2006 [PDF]
• The Evaluation of Quality of New Jersey’s Abbott Preschool Classrooms 2006 [PDF]

South Carolina

• Evaluation of the South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Program 2006
  (High/Scope) [PDF]

American Educational Research Association

• Early Childhood Education: Investing in Quality Makes Sense [PDF]

Council of Chief State School Officers

• Early Childhood Education Assessment Consortium

Education Reform

• Early Childhood Education—States Moving Toward Universal Coverage, 2004 [PDF]

High/Scope Educational Research Foundation

• State-Funded Preschool Programs

Pre[K]Now

• Key State Profiles

National Center for Early Development and Learning

• Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten

National Institute for Early Education Research

• The State of Preschool, 2005: State Preschool Yearbook

Rand Corporation Report

• The Economics of Investing in Universal Preschool Education in California [PDF]

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