This study examined the unique protective influence of center-based early care and education experiences on kindergarten outcomes for children entering public school kindergarten. The 3,969 participants were geographically and demographically representative of an entire kindergarten cohort in a large urban school district. Child age, gender, ethnicity, family poverty, low maternal education, an...

A study was conducted to compare the relative effects of three different kindergarten schedules on children’s achievement in reading, writing, and math and prosocial classroom behaviors. Subjects included 47 children attending all-day kindergarten, 56 children attending alternateday kindergarten, and 44 children attending half-day kindergarten. Individual achievement tests were administered in ...

A battery of 4 school-readiness tests and 16 motor tests were administered in a sample of 660 preschool children (333 male and 327 female) just about to enroll in the first grade, in order to analyze the effects of kindergarten period on school readiness and motor abilities. The sample of children was divided into six groups according to sex and duration kindergarten attendance (kindergarten pe...

This study examined the effect of school-based kindergarten transition policies and practices on child outcomes. The authors followed 17,212 children from 992 schools in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten sample (ECLS-K) across the kindergarten school year. Hierarchical linear modeling revealed that the number of school-based transition practices in the fall of kindergarten was...

In this study, the authors examined the extent to which children's self-regulation upon kindergarten entrance and classroom quality in kindergarten contributed to children's adaptive classroom behavior. Children's self-regulation was assessed using a direct assessment upon entrance into kindergarten. Classroom quality was measured on the basis of multiple classroom observations during the kinde...

BACKGROUND Injuries are very common and can occur at any point of time in a day. Unintended injuries in kindergarten children are the most common and need immediate life saving care which is known as first aid. This study aimed to investigate knowledge, attitude, practice, and associated factors of first aid among kindergarten teachers of Lideta sub-city Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. METHOD A cross-...

Recent research has found that children who attended pre-kindergarten programs in childhood were more likely to be healthy as adults. One intuitive way of improving population health and longevity may therefore be to invest in pre-kindergarten programs. However, much of the research linking pre-kindergarten programs to health is very recent and has not been synthesized. In this paper, I review ...

introduction: intestinal parasitic infections are of a major public health problem in many societies. enterobius vermicularis (e. vermicularis) is particularly more persistent in places such as kindergartens, dormitories, and barracks, where people live and work together. this study aimed to investigate the prevalence and risk factors of infection with e. vermicularis in the kindergartens of de...

Kindergarten “redshirting”—the decision to delay a child’s kindergarten entry—may have consequences not only for the redshirted child but for other children whose grade cohort is affected. We use nationally-representative data to estimate the prevalence of redshirting, its relationship to observable characteristics, and its impact on the composition of kindergarten cohorts. We find that only 4 ...