Alabama First Class Pre-K Research Gains National Exposure
The National Institute of Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University has recognized research on the persistence of the impact of First Class Pre-K. Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, PARCA, ThinkData, and the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education published a peer-reviewed article in the International Journal of Child Care and Education […]
First Class Pre-K Lowers Discipline Rates During Students’ Middle and High School Years
Children who have participated in Alabama’s First Class Pre-K program, a voluntary, public early education program, are about half as likely to be involved in disciplinary problems throughout their school careers as students who didn’t participate in First Class Pre-K, and the most pronounced differences between the two groups are evident in the students’ middle and […]
The Lasting Effect of Alabama First Class Pre-K
Students who attended the First Class Pre-K program in Alabama are more likely to be proficient in reading and math compared to other students — and this academic advantage persists over time. This is the key finding of an ongoing study of Alabama First Class Pre-K conducted by researchers from the Public Affairs Research Council […]
PARCA collaborates on new research showing Alabama’s First Class Pre-K students are performing better on academic assessments than others
Alabama public school students who participated in the state’s publicly funded First Class Pre-K program performed better on academic assessments than those who did not, and the improved performance persists as students progress through the early grades and into middle school. That is according to newly released findings from the First Class Pre-K Research Evaluation […]