Ready for School
Can Full-Day Kindergarten Level the Playing Field?
This research brief assesses relationship between school readiness skills at kindergarten entry and reading and mathematics achievement through fifth grade; also examines kindergarten program factors that predict nonacademic school readiness skills.
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- Year: 2006
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