Impacts of Early Childhood Education on Medium- and Long-Term Educational Outcomes

Educational Researcher

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 474-487

  McCoy, Dana Charles ^a   Yoshikawa, Hirokazu ^b   Ziol Guest, Kathleen M ^b   Duncan, Greg J ^c   Schindler, Holly S ^d   Magnuson, Katherine ^e   Yang, Rui ^b   Koepp, Andrew ^a   Shonkoff, Jack P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

early childhood education; grade retention; high school graduation; meta analysis; preschool; special education

Indexed keywords

EID: 85034608503     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: 1935102X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X17737739     Document Type: Article

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