Preschool

State & Hill

How do you ensure every child gets a strong start?

Dec 8, 2025

Weiland's policy-driven research brings proven results to classrooms across the U.S.In the rural West Virginia holler where Professor Christina Weiland grew up, the nearest child care center was at least 45 minutes away. So, until she was old enough ...

How do you ensure every child gets a strong start?

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NASEM committee including EPI’s Christina Weiland urges changes to preschool curricula to improve equity and support high-quality early education in the U.S.

Apr 18, 2024

A new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) lays out a new vision for high-quality preschool curricula that support equitable early education for all children. The report recommends that in the next five year...

Weiland named inaugural Karl and Martha Kohn Professor of Social Policy

In the Media

Weiland touts her preschool research findings

Feb 8, 2023 MIT News

Christina Weiland, MIT News: "I am really excited by this work. We’re seeing the really positive long-term effects of attending preschool. A really important question is not only whether preschool works, yes or no, but how, and what kind of preschool...

News

Weiland expertise on transitional kindergarten, universal preschool, in the news

Jan 29, 2023

Education Policy Initiative faculty co-director Christina Weiland has an expertise in pre-k, and recently published a paper on Transitional Kindergarten. Both topics have been in the news. In her State of the State address, Michigan Governor Gret...

Smart from the Start: Closing Early Opportunity Gaps with Strategic Early Learning Investments

News

Weiland and co-authors break down Tennessee’s Voluntary Pre-K study

Feb 13, 2022

Responding to a recent study that shows the negative impact of Tennessee’s Voluntary Pre-K program, Christina Weiland, associate professor of public policy and education, and five other authors penned an article defending early childhood education (E...

Investment in Pre-K can expand access, increase pay - Weiland

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Critical tools in preschool program design maximize investments

Jan 13, 2022

As the Biden administration and early childhood advocates across the country push for universal preschool for all three- and four-year-olds, Christina Weiland, professor of education and public policy at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Pu...

In the Media

Weiland breaks down Michigan universal pre-k

Jan 6, 2022 Metro Parent

Christina Weiland, co-director of the Education Policy Initiative and associate professor of education and public policy, sat down with Metro Parent to discuss what universal pre-k could mean for Michigan. "Universal pre-K can help take financial s...

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IES Predoctoral Fellows Moffett and Wessiman, Weiland, and colleagues explore effects of pre-k classroom organization

Dec 16, 2021

What are the best ways to judge how instruction in pre-kindergarten classrooms is organized? Linkages between facets of classroom organization such as better organization of materials, smooth transitions, and clear routines are thought to make childr...

IES Predoctoral Fellows Moffett and Wessiman, Weiland, and colleagues explore effects of pre-k classroom organization

Publication

Supporting 'Preschool for All' in Washington state

Nov 12, 2021

Policy Brief from the University of Michigan’s Education Policy Initiative outlines a vision for high-quality universal preschool in the state of Washington High-quality preschool helps prepare children for kindergarten and promotes their long-term...

Supporting 'Preschool for All' in Washington state

In the Media

Weiland details 'game-changer' early childhood measures in reconciliation bill

Oct 4, 2021 The Detroit News

Within the Congressional reconciliation bill, Democrats are hoping to pass a child care plan that would cap costs of child care, implement a national, free pre-school program, and boost child care workers' wages. "We've documented (these problems)...

Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

A talk by Gaurav Khanna, Economics, and Anna Shapiro, Education

Apr 6, 2016, 8:30-10:00 am EDT

Weill Hall, Room 3240

A presentation by Gaurav Khanna, PhD student in Economics, and Anna Shapiro, PhD student in Education

EPI Policy briefs

Preschool for All: A Strong Start for Washington State’s Children

October 1, 2021

Christina Weiland, Tim Burgess, Ajay Chaudry, Ruth Kagi, Anna Shapiro, Casey Moran

Washington State has an early childhood crisis roiling almost invisibly across the state, with many children not receiving the strong and fair start in life they need and deserve. This crisis has life-long implications for children because early chil...

EPI Working papers

When do the Literacy Skills of Preschool Attenders and Non-Attenders Converge? Evidence from Boston

October 1, 2019

Christina Weiland, Anna Shapiro, Rebecca Unterman

Attending preschool improves children’s kindergarten readiness, but the cognitive outcomes of preschool attenders and non-attenders tend to converge partially or fully in elementary school. In older programs, most of the non-attender “catch up” occur...

Mitigating Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis on Young Children and Early Care and Education Programs

Jun 21, 2021 1:00:19

The COVID-19 crisis has brought unprecedented challenges for young children, families, early educators, and early care and education (ECE) programs. Researchers across the country have completed more than 300 studies and counting to capture these cha...

Mitigating Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis on Young Children and Early Care and Education Programs

From Rescue to Rebuild: Developing a National ECE System That Works

Jun 4, 2021 1:01:08

Between historic bipartisan investments to stabilize and expand access to child care in 2020 and new proposals from Congress and the Biden Administration, the nation is poised to significantly increase access to quality early childhood education. To ...

From Rescue to Rebuild: Developing a National ECE System That Works

What works in early childhood education panel

Mar 21, 2016 1:19:11

Daphna Bassok, Howard Bloom, Christina Weiland and Hirokazu Yoshikawa discuss what works - and doesn’t - in early childhood education. March, 2016.

What works in early childhood education panel