The universal pre-K bandwagon

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 246-249

  Gormley, William T ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 28444464410     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170508700319     Document Type: Article

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3. Walter Gilliam and Edward Zigler, State Efforts to Evaluate the Effects of Pre-K: 1977 to 2003 (New Haven, Conn.: Child Study Center, Yale University, 19 April 2004).
4. Prekindergarten: Four Selected States Expanded Access by Relying on Schools and Existing Providers of Early Education and Care to Provide Services (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Accountability Office, GAO-04-852, September 2004).
5. Telephone interview with Lloyd Jackson, 14 September 2004.
6. Brendan Farrington, "Ballot Initiative Would Make Preschool Available for All 4-Year-Olds," Associated Press, 15 February 2002.
7. Gary Henry et al., Report of the Findings from the Early Childhood Study: 2001-02 (Atlanta: Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, August 2003).
8. Gary Henry, Craig Gordon, and Dana Rickman, "Comparing Universal and Targeted Policies: The Quality and Outcomes of Alternative Early Education Policies," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Atlanta, 29 October 2004.
9. William Gormley and Ted Gayer, "Promoting School Readiness in Oklahoma: An Evaluation of Tulsa's Pre-K Program," Journal of Human Resources, Summer 2005, pp. 533-58;
10. and William Gormley et al., "The Effects of Universal Pre-K on Cognitive Development," Developmental Psychology, November 2005.
11. Theda Skocpol, "Targeting Within Universal ism: Politically Viable Policies to Combat Poverty in the U.S.," in Christopher Jencks and Paul Peterson, eds., The Urban Underclass (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1991), pp. 411-36.
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13. Susan Neuman, "From Rhetoric to Reality: The Case for High-Quality Compensatory Prekindergarten Programs," Phi Delta Kappan, December 2003, pp. 284-91.