Robert Carr
@RobC123
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Focused on #ChildCare #ECE #Education #ChildDevelopment
South Lake Tahoe, CA
Joined February 2016
In the latest SRCD Monograph, researchers examine the effects of #funding in North Carolina’s Pre-Kindergarten program on children’s academic outcomes in elementary school. Read more: https://t.co/EzJlhKZZVq
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Today’s #EarlyEfforts webinar with @HarvardCenter "Place Matters – How the Environment We Create Shapes the Foundations of Early Development” is happening NOW! 🧵Follow along with us for live updates or register here to attend: https://t.co/DRyZ1dUk5O
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“It is our collective responsibility to ensure that public health policy decisions are driven by the best available data” via @NYTOpinion
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… also, lmk if you are planning to do some spring skiing around the conference ⛷️
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I’m excited to be going to #SRCD2023 in SLC!! Bookmark this session… “To Pre-K and Beyond: Child Development and Educational Environments Across Pre-K and Elementary School” w/ @BratschHines @kyliegarber & K.Zimmermann @CraneCenterOSU
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5/6 Evidence from a recent study of children in North Carolina suggest that they will benefit from the combination of NC Pre-K and high-quality elementary schools. That’s encouraging news! Read more here..
ednc.org
Newly published research suggests NC Pre-K graduates are more likely to retain benefits if they attend a high-quality elementary school.
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4/6 Expanding access to NC Pre-K programming and continually improving the quality of NC public schools are two good bets to improve outcomes for children in North Carolina
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"4. Align and improve early-grade K–12 settings to support successful transitions to K–3 and promote early-grade success" 3/6
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"3. Expand the NC Pre-K program to provide high-quality full-day, full-year services to all at-risk 4-year-old children" 2/6
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1/6 This is a historic day for children in North Carolina. As we move forward, let's revisit some of the recommendations outlined in a 2019 Action Plan designed to achieve compliance with the Leandro decision and ensure a “sound basic education” for all children in North Carolina
BREAKING: In a 4-3 decision, the North Carolina Supreme Court ordered lawmakers to transfer state funds for years two and three of the Leandro plan, making way for major investments in the state's public education system. #nced
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Happy Tuesday! Quick announcement… I’m excited to return home to @FPGInstitute! Grateful to join this community of researchers and implementation scientists who are dedicated to tackling the most important issues facing children, families, and the professionals who care for them
Robert Carr’s path to his current role as a research scientist at FPG began in a Head Start preschool classroom in San Diego, where he worked as a volunteer program coordinator. He recently returned to FPG after completing his postdoc training. Learn more: https://t.co/x0CbzGll8a
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5/ Importantly, when I considered the composite measure with 80% AA/20% AG, the correlation with student economic disadvantage was just as high as it was when I considered average achievement alone
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4/ Alternatively, achievement growth (in school districts) showed a much smaller correlation with student economic disadvantage—suggest that achievement growth may be the better way to measure the unique contributions of schooling toward promoting student learning and achievement
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3/ Average achievement (in school districts) was highly correlated with a measure of student economic disadvantage—suggesting that average achievement may reflect a broad range educational opportunities available to students based on the socioeconomic status of their community
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2/ When I examined the average achievement and achievement growth for the cohort of students who progressed from third to eighth grade between 2014 and 2019, I found that...
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1/ This week's release of the NC school performance grades (a composite measure based on 80% academic achievement and 20% academic growth) gives me the opportunity to highlight recent work showing that *growth* might be the better measure #NCEd
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(4/4) Measuring achievement growth in North Carolina was motivated by @seanfreardon 's measure of educational opportunity in early/middle childhood across all public school districts in the US (with some small but important differences in our methods)...
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(3/4) The second paper finds that the long-term effect of financial investments of North Carolina's NC Pre-K program is larger in school districts with lower rates of growth in academic achievement...
edworkingpapers.com
Prior research has found that public investments in North Carolina’s pre-kindergarten program—NC Pre-K—generated positive effects on student reading and math achievement through eighth grade (Bai et...
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