References

Meets WWC evidence standards with reservations

Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research (PCER) Consortium. (2008). Bright Beginnings and Creative Curriculum: Vanderbilt University. In Effects of preschool curriculum programs on school readiness (pp. 41–54). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Research, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.

Studies that fall outside the Early Childhood Education protocol or do not meet WWC evidence standards

Bucci, A. F. (2000). Using Title I and local funds to build quality preschool programs in Charlotte-Mecklenburg: A “Bright Beginning”. In Current state and local initiatives to support student learning: Early childhood programs and innovative programs to better address the needs of youth (pp. 12–17). Selected presentations from an “Ensuring Student Success through Collaboration Network” conference (September 12–15, 1999), Louisville, KY. The study is ineligible for review because it does not use a comparison group.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. (2004). Bright Beginnings program cost-benefit analysis project report. The study is ineligible for review because it does not include an outcome within a domain specified in the protocol.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Comparison study of 1997–98 Bright Beginning participants percent at or above grade level on end-of-year assessment. Retrieved from http://www.cms.k12.nc.us/cmsdepartments/ci/pre-kservices/Pages/
ComparisonStudy.aspx. The study is ineligible for review because it does not provide enough information about its design to assess whether it meets standards.

Smith, E. J., Pellin, B. J., & Agruso, S. A. (2003). Bright Beginnings: An effective literacy-focused PreK program for educationally disadvantaged four-year-old children. Arlington, VA: Educational Research Service. The study does not meet WWC evidence standards because the intervention and comparison groups are not shown to be equivalent at baseline.

Additional sources:
McClure, M. (2000). For K–12 success, North Carolina district starts early. Curriculum Administrator, 36(8), 24.

Neuman, S. B. (2009). Changing the odds through high-quality early care and education. In Changing the odds for at risk children: Seven essential principles of educational programs that break the cycle of poverty (pp. 97–126). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Smith, E. J. (2007). Weaving the gifted into the full fabric. School Administrator, 64(2), 10.

Tough, P. (2008). The conveyor belt. In Whatever it takes: Geoffrey Canada's quest to change Harlem and America (pp. 188–212). New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.