Parental Notions of School Readiness: How Have They Changed and Has Preschool Made a Difference?

This report was authored through the National Institute for Early Education, and researchers used data from two waves of the National Household Education Surveys to examine school readiness from the parent’s perspective. Researchers test for differences between parent perceived school readiness and expectations for kindergarten with child development outcomes from 1993 to 2007. Over time, parents increased in their view of requirements from kindergarten entry, but researchers only found modest changes in parental effort for promoting such behaviors.