Maia Connors

The research team will explore how access to school-based pre-K is related to enrollment and academic outcomes under decentralized and centralized enrollment policy contexts. There has been substantial expansion of school-based pre-K across the country in recent years, but there is little evidence on the extent to which the students who are most likely to benefit from pre-K actually enroll in school-based programs, and thus whether these expansion efforts are related to the reduction of earl...

The NYU Predoctoral Training Program in Education Sciences prepared fellows to be researchers with strengths in understanding learning in context, using rigorous experimental and quasi-experimental approaches to causal inference, and taking interdisciplinary perspectives on education and learning.