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Texas Pre-K Teachers' Program Yields Tepid Readults, Study Says

Of course "more study" is urged. That's how the system works.

Evaluation urges closer look at training program's effect on student readiness.

By Linda Jacobson


A Texas program designed to improve the skills of prekindergarten teachers, which has grown rapidly since it started in 2003, has yet to provide enough evidence to prove it is effectively preparing youngsters for school, despite the $21 million spent on it so far and the positive outcomes reported for some students, an evaluation finds.

The Texas Early Education Model, or TEEM, provides training to teachers from schools, child-care centers, and Head Start programs and is implemented by the State Center for Early Childhood Development at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. The center is directed by Susan Landry, who is recognized as an expert on early literacy.

Conducted for the Texas Education Agency by San Antonio-based Edvance Research, the analysis [pdf file did not work on 1/10] of the program, dated October, shows that during the first two years, children in about half the 11 communities using TEEM improved more on certain prereading skills than did those assigned to a control group. But in the other half of the communities, the children in the control group outperformed those served by TEEM on such outcomes, including letter naming and vocabulary naming.

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— Linda Jacobson
Education Week
2008-01-09
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