Allison Atteberry

High quality early childhood education (ECE) has been shown to have profound positive effects on child development, help narrow opportunity gaps, and yield substantial social returns. Yet, more recent research on the impacts of large-scale, present-day ECE programs have yielded mixed results, raising at least 3 key questions for ECE policymakers and researchers: First, there is a need to identify what particular features of preschool programs contribute to children's development. Second, the...

Partnerswill focus on closing achievement gaps and improve outcomes for DPS's historically underserved students by strengthening the teaching workforce. Specifically, the partners will (1) explore patterns of teacher retention within DPS schools and across DPS and (2) analyze Teacher Leadership & Collaboration (TL&C), DPS's innovative teacher career ladder initiative.

The University of Virginia Postdoctoral Interdisciplinary Training Program in the Education Sciences provided training for five fellows in multiple projects including ones focused on teacher quality, early childhood, and social and behavioral contexts for academic learning.