Early childhood educational opportunities under the Kentucky Education Reform Act
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this dissertation, I examine how two major social programs in Kentucky -- state-funded preK and Family Resource and Youth Service Centers -- impact children's outcomes across the state, including racial, ethnic, and economic equity through elementary school. In each chapter, I will analyze how early childhood opportunities relate to outcomes including Kindergarten-readiness, including cognitive, language, physical, and socioemotional skills; uptake of preventative health care including early health check-ups, vision screenings, and immunizations; unexcused absences, chronic absence, and discipline in Kindergarten or through elementary school; and performance on statewide standardized math and ELA assessments in Grades 3--5. To do this, I leverage what may be the first statewide, student-level dataset that will permit the linking across preK settings, Kindergarten-readiness, and school outcomes through Grade 3. I look at eight cohorts from the Kentucky Longitudinal Data System from 2013-2014 through 2019-2020, including demographic, academic, health, and service records of approximately 300,000 unique students in preK, comprising 2.3 million student-year observations from preK through Grade 5. This dissertation provides evidence that thirty years after the Kentucky Education Reform Act established state-funded preK and Family Resource and Youth Service Centers, the programs have impacts on equity and outcomes from Kindergarten through Grade 5.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Townley Flores, Carrie Kathlyn |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Obradovic, Jelena |
| Degree supervisor | reardon, sean |
| Thesis advisor | Obradovic, Jelena |
| Thesis advisor | reardon, sean |
| Thesis advisor | Sanders, Lee |
| Degree committee member | Sanders, Lee |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Carrie Townley-Flores. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/rv636jr0470 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Carrie Kathlyn Townley Flores
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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