Early Childhood Research Roundtable
What Do We Know About the Impacts of Pre-Kindergarten?
January 24, 2018
No video of this forum is available.
As part of our Vision 2020 strategic plan, the Boston Foundation is deepening its focus on the critical pre-natal to age 5 early childhood years to improve children's readiness for success in school and life. We plan to host several forums and convenings in the coming year to raise public awareness of opportunities and challenges in early childhood. In this context, we are launching the Early Childhood Research Roundtable series. This series will periodically convene researchers and program and policy leaders to discuss a specific topic in early childhood with the objective of strengthening connections between research and practice.
Our inaugural Early Childhood Research Roundtable focused on a recent Brookings Institution's report titled "The Current State of Scientific Knowledge on Pre-Kindergarten Effects," which summarizes what is known about the effectiveness of state and district pre-kindergarten programs on children's learning outcomes. The session featured presentations by two of the report's authors, and included a discussion about the effectiveness of the Boston Public Schools' pre-kindergarten program.
The program included:
Welcome
Paul S. Grogan, President & CEO, The Boston Foundation
Presentations & Panel Discussion
Tamara Blake-Canty, Principal, Russell Elementary School
Greg Duncan, Distinguished Professor, University of California at Irvine
Jason Sachs, Executive Director of Early Childhood, Boston Public Schools
Christina Weiland, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Panel Moderator
Antoniya Marinova, Program Officer, Education to Career, The Boston Foundation
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