Cybele Raver

The purpose of this project is twofold: 1) to evaluate the long-term impact of a preschool self-regulation and school-readiness intervention on later self-regulation skills, and 2) to evaluate the impact of a new mindset intervention to improve self-regulation and, ultimately, college readiness in high school students. The preschool intervention (Chicago School Readiness Project, or CSRP) was aimed at supporting low-income students' chances of success in navigating the preschool to kindergar...

Senior education leaders in New York City (NYC) are currently undertaking one of the most rapidly and broadly deployed education policy initiatives in the nation, dramatically expanding universal pre-kindergarten opportunities for the city's preschool-aged children. The purpose of this project is to provide quantitative and capacity-building solutions to two pressing problems faced by the NYC Department of Education (DOE) in the face of this historic expansion. The first is that the NYC DOE'...

Appreciable numbers of children are entering school without the necessary self-regulation needed to support learning and academic achievement in the early grades of schooling. The purpose of this project is to experimentally evaluate the efficacy of an early childhood curriculum, Tools of the Mind, in improving the self-regulation abilities, academic achievement, and social-emotional development of young children. The goal is to determine if the Tools of Mind curriculum leads to improved aca...