Recently Funded Projects

  • FirstSchool Support for Demonstration Classrooms
    Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute will provide leadership and professional development for the Department of Public Instruction's demonstration pre-k and kindergarten classrooms. FirstSchool staff will serve on the steering committee and participate in biannual professional development sessions for demonstration site teachers.
  • Babies First North Carolina Program Evaluation Model
    Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute will work in collaboration with Child Care Services Association and the North Carolina Division of Child Development and Early Education as appropriate to develop a plan to conduct a rigorous evaluation that will use an experimental or quasi-experimental approach to examine whether the program is implemented with high-quality and the degree to which it yields positive impacts on child outcomes.
  • Georgia Pre-Kindergarten Evaluation
    The Georgia Pre-Kindergarten Evaluation project provides an external statewide evaluation of Georgia's Pre-K Program, a universal pre-kindergarten program for four-year-olds. The project is currently conducting an ongoing longitudinal study of the short- and long-term learning outcomes for children who attended Georgia's Pre-K Program as well as the quality of their preschool and early elementary school experiences from pre-k through fifth grade.

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