Summative evaluation of the Ready to Learn Initiative: Preschool teachers can use a media-rich curriculum to prepare low-income children for school success: Results of a randomized controlled trial [Executive summary]

Author(s): Penuel, William R.; Pasnik, Shelley; Bates, Lauren; Townsend, Eve; Gallagher, Lawrence P.; Llorente, Carlin; Hupert, Naomi;
Date Issued: September, 2009
Publisher(s): Education Development Center; SRI International
Description: A summary of an investigation of the effect of the inclusion of children's video programming in the preschool curriculum on children's early literacy skills, based on a random sample of 398 low-income children aged 4 and 5 years old from 80 preschool classrooms from 47 child care centers in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area assigned to receive a 10 week technology-supported literacy curriculum or a 10 week technology-supported science curriculum comparison group
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Funder(s): Corporation for Public Broadcasting ; United States. Department of Education
Source: Newton, MA: Education Development Center. Retrieved December 13, 2009, from http://cct.edc.org/pdf/RTLEvalReport.pdf
Topics: Children & Child Development > Child Development & School Readiness > Early Literacy

Programs, Interventions & Curricula > Interventions/Curricula > Early Literacy
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