W Steven Barnett
Biographic Data
| ID | 4192238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Steven Barnett |
| GIVEN NAMES | W Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnett |
| SIGNATURE | BARNETT W S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0064-049X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 264 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Corona pandemic in the United States shapes new normal for young children and their families
The COVID-19 pandemic tremendously disrupted ECE in the U.S., closing many private programs and nearly all public preschool and primary classrooms. To understand this impact, we used multiple strategies, including a nationwide survey of parents; a review of state policies, guidance and resource documents; and scans of media coverage to obtain information on how the pandemic has shaped policy and the ECE experiences of young children and their fam…
Effects of New Jersey's Abbott preschool program on children's achievement, grade retention, and special education through tenth grade
Relatively few studies provide rigorous estimates of the long-term effects of large-scale public preschool programs, and their findings vary greatly. This study investigates the effects in third through tenth grade of New Jersey's Abbott preschool program which has many of the features and contexts hypothesized to mitigate fadeout. The program was designed and implemented in the context of a Court mandated systemic reform of education and its fun…
Impacts of the New Mexico PreK initiative by children’s race/ethnicity
Relating preschool class size to classroom quality and student achievement
Economics of Early Education
Economic research has established that public investments in early childhood programs providing education can yield high rates of return. A substantial portion of these returns are spillover effects that benefit society generally but not the child and family creating a classic instance of market failure. Benefits include improvements in school progress and achievement, health and health behaviors, social behavior, and employment and earnings for …
Assessing QRIS as a change agent
Effectiveness of Early Educational Intervention
Early educational intervention has been proposed to partially offset the impacts of poverty and inadequate learning environments on child development and school success. A broad range of early educational interventions are found to produce meaningful, lasting effects on cognitive, social, and schooling outcomes. However, all interventions are not equally effective. Two major U.S. programs perform relatively poorly. Research provides some guidance…
Benefits of early childhood interventions across the world: (Under) Investing in the very young
Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Early Education Interventions on Cognitive and Social Development
The Effects of Preschool Education: What We Know, How Public Policy Is or Is Not Aligned With the Evidence Base, and What We Need to Know
Early childhood education is at the nexus of basic developmental science, policy research and analysis, and the applied disciplines of education and prevention science. The field has become one of the most vibrant areas of scientific activity in terms of the connections among scientific advances and theory, program design, policy, and classroom practices. But despite the potential links between research and evaluation on the one hand and program …
A Response to “Where I Stand on Standardization” by Lilian G. Katz and to “‘Are We Getting It Right?’ The Controversy Over Universal Pre-K” by Susan B. Neuman
Misplaced Fears: Fact and Fancy in Standardized Childhood
Educational effects of the Tools of the Mind curriculum: A randomized trial
Preschool Program Improves Cognitive Control
Cognitive control skills important for success in school and life are amenable to improvement in at-risk preschoolers without costly interventions.
Comparative benefit–cost analysis of the Abecedarian program and its policy implications
Two-way and monolingual English immersion in preschool education: An experimental comparison
An effectiveness‐based evaluation of five state pre‐kindergarten programs
Since 1980, the number of state pre‐kindergarten (pre‐K) programs has more than doubled, with 38 states enrolling more than one million children in 2006 alone. This study evaluates how five state pre‐K programs affected children's receptive vocabulary, math, and print awareness skills. Taking advantage of states' strict enrollment policies determined by a child's date of birth, a regression‐discontinuity design was used to estimate effects in Mic…
Revving up head start: Lessons from recent research
Surprising agreement on head start: Compli/ementing Currie and Besharov
Costs, Benefits, and Long-Term Effects of Early Care and Education Programs: Recommendations and Cautions for Community Developers
Participation in early care and education (ECE) programs has become the norm for this nation's three- and four-year olds. Public investments in such programs have been promoted on the grounds that they can produce high rates of return in the form of academic outcomes, greater employment rates, and reduced crime. Yet, potential gains are not always realized, as benefits and costs depend on who is served by the program, the activities provided, and…
From the Guest Editors
And so we plough along: The nature and nurture of partnerships for inquiry
Another Look at Education for Poor Children
Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Programs on Cognitive and School Outcomes
W. Steven Barnett, Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Programs on Cognitive and School Outcomes, The Future of Children, Vol. 5, No. 3, Long-Term Outcomes of Early Childhood Programs (Winter, 1995), pp. 25-50
Economic Evaluation of Home Visiting Programs
This article discusses economic evaluation of home visiting programs. Evaluations of this kind, including cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit studies, can help policymakers allocate limited resources and help both program planners and administrators improve their programs. Barnett reviews some of the important considerations when measuring the costs and outcomes of home visiting programs. In the Appendix to this article, he describes the steps th…
Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Programs on Cognitive and School Outcomes
W. Steven Barnett, Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Programs on Cognitive and School Outcomes, The Future of Children, Vol. 5, No. 3, Long-Term Outcomes of Early Childhood Programs (Winter, 1995), pp. 25-50
An effectiveness‐based evaluation of five state pre‐kindergarten programs
Since 1980, the number of state pre‐kindergarten (pre‐K) programs has more than doubled, with 38 states enrolling more than one million children in 2006 alone. This study evaluates how five state pre‐K programs affected children's receptive vocabulary, math, and print awareness skills. Taking advantage of states' strict enrollment policies determined by a child's date of birth, a regression‐discontinuity design was used to estimate effects in Mic…
Two-way and monolingual English immersion in preschool education: An experimental comparison
Educational effects of the Tools of the Mind curriculum: A randomized trial
Costs, Benefits, and Long-Term Effects of Early Care and Education Programs: Recommendations and Cautions for Community Developers
Participation in early care and education (ECE) programs has become the norm for this nation's three- and four-year olds. Public investments in such programs have been promoted on the grounds that they can produce high rates of return in the form of academic outcomes, greater employment rates, and reduced crime. Yet, potential gains are not always realized, as benefits and costs depend on who is served by the program, the activities provided, and…
Assessing QRIS as a change agent
Effects of New Jersey's Abbott preschool program on children's achievement, grade retention, and special education through tenth grade
Relatively few studies provide rigorous estimates of the long-term effects of large-scale public preschool programs, and their findings vary greatly. This study investigates the effects in third through tenth grade of New Jersey's Abbott preschool program which has many of the features and contexts hypothesized to mitigate fadeout. The program was designed and implemented in the context of a Court mandated systemic reform of education and its fun…
Economic Evaluation of Home Visiting Programs
This article discusses economic evaluation of home visiting programs. Evaluations of this kind, including cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit studies, can help policymakers allocate limited resources and help both program planners and administrators improve their programs. Barnett reviews some of the important considerations when measuring the costs and outcomes of home visiting programs. In the Appendix to this article, he describes the steps th…
Methodological issues in economic evaluation of early intervention programs
Research on the cost effectiveness of early educational intervention: Implications for research and policy
Impacts of the New Mexico PreK initiative by children’s race/ethnicity
Relating preschool class size to classroom quality and student achievement
Revving up head start: Lessons from recent research
Surprising agreement on head start: Compli/ementing Currie and Besharov
And so we plough along: The nature and nurture of partnerships for inquiry
New wine in old bottles: Increasing the coherence of early childhood care and education policy
The Transition from Public Residential Schools for Retarded People to Custodial Facilities: An Economic Explanation
Conventional histories of residential services for mentally retarded persons in the United States explain the development of custodial care as the result of the failure of early residential schools to achieve their educational goals. Review of the historical evidence indicates that the conventional explanation is inadequate. An alternative explanation is suggested based on an economic model of the structure of the residential services industry. T…
Methodological issues in economic evaluation of early intervention programs
Research on the cost effectiveness of early educational intervention: Implications for research and policy
On ‘Politics, Markets, and American Schools‘
When mid‐19th‐century educational reformers described the system of common schools which they envisioned for the USA, they talked about an institution that would be accessible to all children and that would provide them with a shared educational experience. As these early proponents of public schooling saw it, a system of universal schooling that educated all children had particular virtues for the new republic. It would ensure that all segments …
Economic Evaluation of Home Visiting Programs
This article discusses economic evaluation of home visiting programs. Evaluations of this kind, including cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit studies, can help policymakers allocate limited resources and help both program planners and administrators improve their programs. Barnett reviews some of the important considerations when measuring the costs and outcomes of home visiting programs. In the Appendix to this article, he describes the steps th…
New wine in old bottles: Increasing the coherence of early childhood care and education policy
Benefit-cost analysis of preschool education: Findings from a 25-year follow-up
A 25-year study of the Perry Preschool program provides the basis for a comprehensive benefit-cost analysis of the long-term effects of a preschool education program on children growing up in poverty. Findings indicate that the preschool education program produced economic benefits to participants and to the general public that greatly exceeded the costs of the program
Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Programs on Cognitive and School Outcomes
W. Steven Barnett, Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Programs on Cognitive and School Outcomes, The Future of Children, Vol. 5, No. 3, Long-Term Outcomes of Early Childhood Programs (Winter, 1995), pp. 25-50
Another Look at Education for Poor Children
From the Guest Editors
And so we plough along: The nature and nurture of partnerships for inquiry
Costs, Benefits, and Long-Term Effects of Early Care and Education Programs: Recommendations and Cautions for Community Developers
Participation in early care and education (ECE) programs has become the norm for this nation's three- and four-year olds. Public investments in such programs have been promoted on the grounds that they can produce high rates of return in the form of academic outcomes, greater employment rates, and reduced crime. Yet, potential gains are not always realized, as benefits and costs depend on who is served by the program, the activities provided, and…
Preschool Program Improves Cognitive Control
Cognitive control skills important for success in school and life are amenable to improvement in at-risk preschoolers without costly interventions.
Comparative benefit–cost analysis of the Abecedarian program and its policy implications
Two-way and monolingual English immersion in preschool education: An experimental comparison
An effectiveness‐based evaluation of five state pre‐kindergarten programs
Since 1980, the number of state pre‐kindergarten (pre‐K) programs has more than doubled, with 38 states enrolling more than one million children in 2006 alone. This study evaluates how five state pre‐K programs affected children's receptive vocabulary, math, and print awareness skills. Taking advantage of states' strict enrollment policies determined by a child's date of birth, a regression‐discontinuity design was used to estimate effects in Mic…
Revving up head start: Lessons from recent research
Surprising agreement on head start: Compli/ementing Currie and Besharov
Educational effects of the Tools of the Mind curriculum: A randomized trial
The Effects of Preschool Education: What We Know, How Public Policy Is or Is Not Aligned With the Evidence Base, and What We Need to Know
Early childhood education is at the nexus of basic developmental science, policy research and analysis, and the applied disciplines of education and prevention science. The field has become one of the most vibrant areas of scientific activity in terms of the connections among scientific advances and theory, program design, policy, and classroom practices. But despite the potential links between research and evaluation on the one hand and program …
A Response to “Where I Stand on Standardization” by Lilian G. Katz and to “‘Are We Getting It Right?’ The Controversy Over Universal Pre-K” by Susan B. Neuman
Misplaced Fears: Fact and Fancy in Standardized Childhood
Benefits of early childhood interventions across the world: (Under) Investing in the very young
Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Early Education Interventions on Cognitive and Social Development
Effectiveness of Early Educational Intervention
Early educational intervention has been proposed to partially offset the impacts of poverty and inadequate learning environments on child development and school success. A broad range of early educational interventions are found to produce meaningful, lasting effects on cognitive, social, and schooling outcomes. However, all interventions are not equally effective. Two major U.S. programs perform relatively poorly. Research provides some guidance…
Psychology (24 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (22 works) · Political science (16 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (13 works) · Pedagogy (13 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works)