The effect of attending full‐day kindergarten on English learner students

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11684536
AutoresJill S Cannon (0000-0002-9703-8325, Public Policy Institute of California, autor correspondente), Alison Jacknowitz (American University), Gary Painter (0000-0002-2962-4904, University of Southern California)
Ano2011
Volume30
Fascículo2
Páginas287-309
Data de publicação2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Policy Analysis and Management (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0276-8739 • E-ISSN: 1520-6688
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/pam.20560
OpenAlexW1893873812
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas19

A significant and growing English learner (EL) population attends public schools in the United States. Evidence suggests they are at a disadvantage when entering school and their achievement lags behind non‐EL students. Some educators have promoted full‐day kindergarten programs as especially helpful for EL students. We take advantage of the large EL population and variation in full‐day kindergarten implementation in the Los Angeles Unified School District to examine the impact of full‐day kindergarten on academic achievement, retention, and English language fluency using difference‐in‐differences models. We do not find signficant effects of full‐day kindergarten on most academic outcomes and English fluency through second grade. However, we find that EL students attending full‐day kindergarten were 5 percentage points less likely to be retained before second grade and there are differential effects for several outcomes by student and school characteristics. © 2011 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

Academic achievement · Differential (mechanical device · Differential effects · Disadvantage · Fluency · Mathematics education · Political science · Population · Sociology · Demography · Early Childhood Education and Development · Medicine · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · School Choice and Performance