- Chloe Gibbs
- Spring/Summer 2017
- Focus-33-2d3
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As discussed earlier in this issue, academic achievement gaps by family income emerge early and persist. One approach to remediating these gaps is to expand kindergarten instruction from half-day to full-day. This article presents findings from a study that explored whether students in full-day kindergarten programs outperformed their halfday kindergarten peers in literacy skills by the end of the kindergarten year. I consider whether recent expansions in full-day kindergarten were wise or whether resources currently spent on those programs could be better used on other early investments.
Categories
Education & Training, Inequality & Mobility, Intergenerational Poverty, K-12 Education