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Impacts of Early Childhood Education on Medium- and Long-Term Educational Outcomes
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Despite calls to expand early childhood education (ECE) in the United States, questions remain regarding its medium- and long-term impacts on educational outcomes. We use meta-analysis of 22 high-quality experimental and quasi-experimental studies conducted between 1960 and 2016 to find that on average, participation in ECE leads to statistically significant reductions in special education placement (d = 0.33 SD, 8.1 percentage points) and grade retention (d = 0.26 SD, 8.3 percentage points) and increases in high school graduation rates (d = 0.24 SD, 11.4 percentage points). These results support ECE’s utility for reducing education-related expenditures and promoting child well-being.
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- Authors
- McCoy, D. C., Yoshikawa, H., Ziol-Guest, K. M., Duncan, G. J., Schindler, H. S., Magnuson, K., Yang, R., Koepp, A., & Shonkoff, J. P.
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- Educational Researcher
- Published
- 2017-11
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 474-487
- ISSN
- 0013-189X (ISSN-L)
- 1935-102X
- OpenAlex
- W2771056400
- Cited by
- 284
- References
- 52
- FWCI
- 52.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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