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Correlation between Preschool and Kindergarten Success

The Influence of Preschool Participation on Educati*****al Outcomes in Kindergarten

Abstract

*****, young children in the US are attending and participating in preschool programs. P*****nts as well ***** o*****rs perceive preschool educational opportunities as facilitat*****g later positive ***** outcomes for *****. The research conducted within this study was focused on determining the degree to which preschool participation is associated with ***** attainment of successful educational outcomes for children during their kindergarten years. ***** study was ***** via the use of ***** heur*****tic research method in which six studies were examined for the purposes ***** determining ***** association between ***** and educational ***** in kindergarten.

The Influence of ***** Participation on Educational Outcomes in *****

Introduction

During the last four decades, there has been increasing attention directed to the education of children who are under five (Barnett & Boocock, 1998). With ongoing changes in family structures and lifestyles, the number ***** children who are cared for by someone o*****r than a p*****rent has steadily increased. On the basis of inf*****mation provided ***** ***** and *****, estimates suggest that almost 65 percent of mothers with preschool children are in the labor force. In 1995, 59 percent of all preschool-aged children within ***** US were in preschool care and education ***** on a regular basis, including 67 percent of three-year-olds ***** 77 percent of four-year-olds (Hofferth, Shauman, Henke, & West, 1998). According to West, Denton, and Germino-Hausken (*****), results from a recent US Dep*****rtment of Education (DOE) study found that 80 percent ***** all children beginning kindergarten in the fall of 1998 had been in child care on a regular basis, and about half cont*****ued to be in child care before or after school.

***** such information suggests, currently, the vast majority ***** children within the US spend much of ***** day away from their parents, with most attending a center-based preschool program prior to *****. As reported by Yarosz and Barnett (2001), in 1999, ***** preschool *****s are frequent attended by preschoolers throughout the US, ***** program participation at 70% at age four and 45% at age three. ***** described by Yarosz and Barnett, center-based programs represent those ***** labeled most frequently as child care, preschool, day care, and nursery school and operating under a number of different auspices, including churches, independent non-profits, for-profits, public schools, and Head Start. According West, Hausken, and Collins (1993), regardless of how ***** programs are described and *****, most parents ***** such ***** as educational. As fur*****r explained by Yarosz and *****, ***** income and parental education increase, there is an ***** in the rate of enrollment and ***** ***** *****ren in pre*****. Th***** f*****ding ***** been ***** to hold true even thought there is greater government support for programs targeting children in low-income families. Additionally, as reported by Yarosz ***** Barnett, findings have suggested that parents are less likely to enroll ***** ***** three in center-based *****, as parent tend to view ********** and *****ddler care as less *****