IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/cysrev/v119y2020ics0190740920320934.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Predictors of school mobility from public school pre-K to kindergarten

Author

Listed:
  • Greenburg, Jordan E.
  • Hines, Caitlin
  • Winsler, Adam

Abstract

Public school pre-k programs are not only effective in promoting children’s school readiness but are also potentially useful for easing the transition from pre-k to kindergarten. One possible reason for this ease of transition is eliminating the need for children to change schools when starting kindergarten. However, little is known about whether children actually stay at the same school for kindergarten that they attended for pre-k and what predicts school mobility between pre-k and kindergarten. Using data from a large (N = 18,775) and ethnically diverse (34.7% Black, 54.9% Latino, 10.3% White/other) sample of predominantly low-income children attending public school pre-k in Miami, we describe the prevalence, nature, and predictors of school mobility between the pre-k and kindergarten years. We found that 20.7% of students who attended public-school pre-k switched schools in the transition from preschool to kindergarten. Logistic regression analyses indicated that, before accounting for school quality, Black and Latino children (compared to White children) had higher odds of switching schools, as did children receiving free or reduced-price lunch. After accounting for school quality, Black children and children receiving free or reduced-price lunch no longer had higher odds of switching schools. Children attending lower-performing schools (compared to higher-performing schools) in pre-k had higher odds of switching schools. We also describe pre- and post-move school quality for different groups of children. Implications of school mobility between public school pre-k and kindergarten are discussed.

Suggested Citation

  • Greenburg, Jordan E. & Hines, Caitlin & Winsler, Adam, 2020. "Predictors of school mobility from public school pre-K to kindergarten," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:119:y:2020:i:c:s0190740920320934
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105670
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740920320934
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105670?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Mehana, Majida & Reynolds, Arthur J., 2004. "School mobility and achievement: a meta-analysis," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 26(1), pages 93-119, January.
    2. Tran, Henry & Winsler, Adam, 2011. "Teacher and center stability and school readiness among low-income, ethnically diverse children in subsidized, center-based child care," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 33(11), pages 2241-2252.
    3. William T. Gormley, 2008. "The Effects of Oklahoma's Pre‐K Program on Hispanic Children," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 89(4), pages 916-936, December.
    4. Ansari, Arya & Winsler, Adam, 2013. "Stability and sequence of center-based and family childcare: Links with low-income children's school readiness," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 35(2), pages 358-366.
    5. Angel L. Harris, 2008. "Optimism in the Face of Despair: Black‐White Differences in Beliefs About School as a Means for Upward Social Mobility," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 89(3), pages 608-630, September.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Johnson, Anna D. & Padilla, Christina M. & Votruba-Drzal, Elizabeth, 2017. "Predictors of public early care and education use among children of low-income immigrants," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 24-36.
    2. Speirs, Katherine E. & Vesely, Colleen K. & Roy, Kevin, 2015. "Is stability always a good thing? Low-income mothers' experiences with child care transitions," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 147-156.
    3. Daniela Del Boca & Christopher Flinn & Daniela Piazzalunga & Chiara Pronzato & Giuseppe Sorrenti & Matthew Wiswall, 2018. "Childcare Choices and Child Development: a Cross-Country Analysis," Carlo Alberto Notebooks 556, Collegio Carlo Alberto.
    4. Mersky, Joshua P. & Topitzes, James D. & Reynolds, Arthur J., 2011. "Maltreatment prevention through early childhood intervention: A confirmatory evaluation of the Chicago Child-Parent Center preschool program," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 33(8), pages 1454-1463, August.
    5. Ong C. & Witte K. de, 2013. "The influence of ethnic segregation and school mobility in primary education on high school dropout : evidence from regression discontinuity at a contextual tipping point," MERIT Working Papers 2013-064, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    6. Christina Felfe & Martin Huber, 2017. "Does preschool boost the development of minority children?: the case of Roma children," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 180(2), pages 475-502, February.
    7. Richard O. Welsh & Matthew Duque & Andrew McEachin, 2016. "School Choice, Student Mobility, and School Quality: Evidence from post-Katrina New Orleans," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 11(2), pages 150-176, Spring.
    8. van Huizen, Thomas & Plantenga, Janneke, 2018. "Do children benefit from universal early childhood education and care? A meta-analysis of evidence from natural experiments," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 206-222.
    9. Nickerson, Amanda B. & Hopson, Laura M. & Steinke, Camela M., 2011. "School connectedness in community and residential treatment schools: The influence of gender, grades, and engagement in treatment," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 33(6), pages 829-837, June.
    10. Reynolds, Arthur J. & Ou, Suh-Ruu, 2004. "Alterable predictors of child well-being in the Chicago longitudinal study," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 26(1), pages 1-14, January.
    11. Schmitt, Sara A. & Mihalec-Adkins, Brittany & Lipscomb, Shannon T. & Pratt, Megan E. & Horvath, Gregor, 2022. "Longitudinal relations among child care stability during the prekindergarten year and behavior problems," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 138(C).
    12. Bobbitt, Kaeley C. & Gershoff, Elizabeth T., 2016. "Chaotic experiences and low-income children's social-emotional development," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 19-29.
    13. Hansson, Åse & Gustafsson, Jan-Eric & Nielsen, Bo, 2018. "Special needs education and school mobility: School outcomes for children placed and not placed in out-of-home care," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 94(C), pages 589-597.
    14. Valeria Ivaniushina & Elena Williams, 2019. "Tracking, School Mobility, and Educational Inequality," Voprosy obrazovaniya / Educational Studies Moscow, National Research University Higher School of Economics, issue 4, pages 47-70.
    15. Kothari, Brianne H. & Godlewski, Bethany & McBeath, Bowen & McGee, Marjorie & Waid, Jeff & Lipscomb, Shannon & Bank, Lew, 2018. "A longitudinal analysis of school discipline events among youth in foster care," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 93(C), pages 117-125.
    16. Yoojin Yi & Euijune Kim & Eunjin Choi, 2017. "Linkage among School Performance, Housing Prices, and Residential Mobility," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(6), pages 1-18, June.
    17. Clemens, Elysia V. & Klopfenstein, Kristin & Lalonde, Trent L. & Tis, Matt, 2018. "The effects of placement and school stability on academic growth trajectories of students in foster care," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 87(C), pages 86-94.
    18. Daniela Del Boca, 2015. "Child Care Arrangements and Labor Supply," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 88074, Inter-American Development Bank.
    19. Jonathan J. B. Mijs, 2018. "Inequality Is a Problem of Inference: How People Solve the Social Puzzle of Unequal Outcomes," Societies, MDPI, vol. 8(3), pages 1-17, August.
    20. Kim, Sunha & Chang, Mido & Kim, Heejung, 2011. "Does teacher educational training help the early math skills of English language learners in Head Start?," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 33(5), pages 732-740, May.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:119:y:2020:i:c:s0190740920320934. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/childyouth .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.