Report: Arkansas pre-K suffers from funding gap

Report: Arkansas pre-K suffers from funding gap

A report by the National Institute for Early Education Research shows Arkansas needs to improve its reach with pre-K students. The state fell from sixth to eighth place in preschool access for 3-year-olds and from 22nd to 24th in access for 4-year-olds, according to the report. Study co-author Steve Barnett, director of the institute at Rutgers […]

Sustaining Gains at the Pre-K to Kindergarten Transition

State policymakers have worked hard to increase prekindergarten enrollment and ease young children’s transition to kindergarten, and with good reason. There is abundant evidence that attending a formal preschool program such as state pre-K or Head Start boosts students’ academic and social competencies significantly and meaningfully, regardless of race or linguistic or cultural background, and particularly for those in low-income homes.[1] Howev…