Gates Reports

Progressive Report Publications

Human Capital Research Collaborative (2018). Defining Preschool Program Quality: A
Summary of Indicators from Three Frameworks. Minneapolis, MN.

Reynolds, A.R., Vaisarova, J., Richardson, B., & Lee, S. (2018). Effective Learning Experiences in Preschool and School Readiness: Evidence from the Midwest Child-Parent Center Expansion. (Brief report). Minneapolis, MN: Human Capital Research Collaborative.

Reynolds, A.R., Vaisarova, J., Richardson, B., Lee, S., Smerillo, N., Bowman, B. (2018).
Aligned Curriculum and Collaborative Leadership: Evidence from the Midwest Child-Parent
Center Expansion. Minneapolis, MN: Human Capital Research Collaborative.

Reynolds, A. J., Hayakawa, M., Mondi, C., Ou, S., Candee, A., Englund, M. M., Smerillo, N.(2017). Scaling and sustaining effective early childhood programs through school-family-university collaboration. Child Development, 88(5), 1453-1465.

Reynolds, A. J., Temple, J. A. (Eds.). (2018). Sustaining early childhood learning gains: Program, school, and family influences. New York: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming in December.

Vaisarova, J., Reynolds, A.R. (2018). Is more child-initiated always better? Exploring links between child-initiated instruction and preschoolers’ school readiness. Minneapolis, MN: Human Capital Research Collaborative.

Lee, S., Reynolds, A. J., Nelson, A. (2017). Fidelity assessment in the Midwest CPC Expansion, Preschool to 3rd grade. Minneapolis, MN: Human Capital Research Collaborative.

Reynolds, A. J. (2018). Preschool to 3rd grade programs: A school reform strategy to increase and sustain learning gains. Minneapolis, MN: Human Capital Research Collaborative. Submitted for publication.

Presentations

Reynolds, A. J., & Heiskell-Tompkins, L. (2017, November). 50 years of the Child-Parent Center Education Program in Chicago and beyond. Symposium at the annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Chicago.

Reynolds, A. J. (2017, November). Child-Parent Centers, P-3: History, evidence, and scaling. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. Chicago.

Lee, S., Nelson, A., Reynolds, A. J. (2017, November). Fidelity assessment in the Midwest CPC Expansion. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. Chicago.

Temple, J. A. (2017, November). Private investments: Pay for Success to expand the Chicago Child-Parent Centers. Paper presentation at annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Chicago.

Reynolds, A. J. (2018, April). Improving achievement through preschool to 3 rd grade reforms. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York.

Year Two Final Report Publications

Reynolds, A.J. (2019). The power of P-3 school reform. Phi Delta Kappan, 100 (6), 27-33.  

Reynolds, A.J., Richardson, B., Lee, S., Vaisarova, J. (2018). PreK Elements that Increase
Third Grade Achievement: An Analysis of the Child-Parent Center and Gates Foundation
Effectiveness Metrics. (Brief report). Minneapolis, MN: Human Capital Research Collaborative.

Varshney, N., Lee, S., Reynolds, A. J. (2019). Sustained gains in early achievement from
parent involvement in the Child-Parent Center program. Report. Minneapolis: Human Capital Research Collaborative, University of Minnesota.

Vaisarova, J., Lee, S., Richardson B., Eales, L., Reynolds, A. (2019). Brief report: Indicators of early childhood education program quality and associations with 3rd grade outcomes. Minneapolis: Human Capital Research Collaborative, University of Minnesota.

Reynolds, A. J., Richardson, B. A., Lee, S. (2019). Preschool and kindergarten impacts of the Midwest expansion of the Child-Parent Centers in the Saint Paul Public Schools. Revision
submitted for publication and a brief presented to Saint Paul district leadership.

Reynolds, A. J., Ou, S., Mondi, C. F., Giovanelli, A. (2019). Reducing poverty and
inequality through preschool-to-third grade prevention services. American Psychologist, in press.

Mondi, C. F., Giovanelli, A., Reynolds, A. J. (2019). Fostering socio-emotional learning
through early childhood programming: A review and synthesis. Minneapolis: Human Capital Research Collaborative. Submitted for publication.

Mondi, C. F., Reynolds, A. J. (2019). Closing the socio-emotional learning gap through
prekindergarten intervention. Minneapolis: Human Capital Research Collaborative. Submitted for publication.

Reynolds, A. J., Human Capital Research Collaborative. (2019). Child-Parent Center
Preschool-Third Grade program manual. Minneapolis: Author. Submitted for publication.

Reynolds, A. J., Richardson, B. A., Lee, S. (2018). Preschool and kindergarten impacts of the Midwest Child-Parent Centers in Saint Paul. Submitted for publication.

Reynolds, A. J., Ou, S., Temple, J. A. (2018). A multicomponent, preschool to 3rd grade
preventive intervention and educational attainment at 35 years of age. JAMA Pediatrics, 172(3), 247-256. [On-line supplement is 50 pages]

Presentations

Reynolds, A.J., Richardson, B., Ou, S., Lee, S. (2019, March). Sustained Effects of the Child- Parent Centers in Chicago and the Midwest Expansion. Presentation at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.

Reynolds, A.J., Temple, J., Richardson, B. (2019, February). Sustaining Early Childhood
Learning Gains: Program, School, & Family Influences. Talk presented as part of the Human Capital Research Collaborative Brown Bag Research Seminar series, Minneapolis, MN.

Webinar with Council of Chief State School Officers (April 2019) on sustaining gains.

Podcast with Cambridge University Press (August 2019) on the book “Sustaining early childhood learning gains: Program, school, and family influences.”

Regular meetings with district leadership and staff in the Chicago Public Schools and Saint Paul Public Schools as well as Rochester, MN and Madison, WI.

Lee, S., Nelson, A., Reynolds, A. J. (2017, November). Fidelity assessment in the Midwest CPC Expansion. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. Chicago.

Reynolds, A.J., Richardson, B., Vaisarova, J., Lee, S. (2018, January). A Comparison of the Gates Foundation, CPC, and NIEER Elements of Effective Early Learning: Implications for Minnesota. Talk presented as part of the Human Capital Research Collaborative Brown Bag Research Seminar series, Minneapolis, MN.

Reynolds, A. J. (2018, May). Elements of effective early childhood programs. Presentation at the Council of Chief State School Officers Early Education Forum. Minneapolis.