Pre-k

Mark Lipsey presented a pre-K consensus report, a joint effort by several institutions to inform lawmakers and other education thought leaders. Read More

Findings will inform educators and school administrators developing curricula for the early years. Read More

Many U.S. states have been quick to invest in pre-k without a clear strategy for success. Read More

Vanderbilt professor and pre-K expert Dale Farran will discuss her latest pre-K research Oct. 26. Read More

Preschool alone is not the silver bullet to end poverty or close achievement gaps. Read More

A panel discussion will continue the discourse on prekindergarten issues facing policymakers. Read More

Minor differences in language can have a large effect on how children think about learning materials, including the objects that make up a pattern. Read More

Watch video of a faculty seminar from Commencement 2014. Early childhood education is on everyone’s radar today, and there are many assumptions about what experiences children need early in their lives to enable them to be successful in school. Internationally, those countries whose children outperform us tend to begin… Read More

High-quality preschool is an effective way to reduce social problems associated with poverty because it teaches children the psychological skills they need to succeed as adults, according to a Vanderbilt professor who studies the economics of human development. Read More

Positive interactions in a pre-kindergarten classroom may be equally or more important to the future academic development of 4-year-olds than learning letters and numbers, according to Dale Farran, senior associate director of the Peabody Research Institute at Vanderbilt's Peabody College for education and human development. Read More

Research can help policymakers and educators make the best decisions on how to assist low-income children exceed in school from an early age. Read More

As schools nationwide prepare for the new academic year, education experts from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education and human development are available for back-to-school interviews on a variety of topics. Read More

The latest research on the nation’s key education issues will be presented by Vanderbilt University Peabody College faculty April 27 - May 1 at the American Educational Research Association’s annual conference in San Francisco. Read More

While critics of expanded preschool argue that their cognitive effects fade out after the first few years of schooling, they ignore a body of longer-term evidence that indicates impoverished students who experience a high-quality preschool program are less likely to repeat grades, to spend time in special education, to become teen parents or to get arrested, writes Camilla Benbow, Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development. Read More

Pre-kindergarten is paying off in giving children a head start in learning basic education and life skills, said Gary Henry, professor of public policy and education, and other experts said in a televised forum in Atlanta. Read More

Vanderbilt research shows what you should do to boost your young child’s brain power. Plus, want to smack someone? How the brain handles impulse control. And Coach Franklin talks the talk and walks the walk! [vucastblurb]… Read More

Education experts from the Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development are available for back-to-school interviews. Read More

Students in Tennessee's state prekindergarten program experience an average of 82 percent greater gains in literacy and math skills over their peers who do not attend state pre-k. Read More