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|Grantee: |Utah State University |
|PR Award Number: |U396B100267 |
|Project Title: |New Mexico Extended School Year K-3 Validation Study |
|Project Director: |Cyndi Rowland |
| |435-797-3381 |
|Amount of Award: |$15,282,720 |
|Length of Award: |5 years |
|Absolute Priority: |AP4: Persistently Low-Performing Schools |
|List of Partners (with states for each) |School District |
| |Albuquerque Public Schools (NM) |
| |Gadsden Public Schools (NM) |
| |Gallup-McKinley Public Schools (NM) |
| |Las Cruces Public Schools (NM) |
| | |
| |University |
| |New Mexico State University (NM) |
|Project Website: |TBD |
|Description of Project: |Evidence suggests that U.S. students benefit from a longer school calendar, |
| |but more research is needed to determine those benefits. New Mexico is |
| |uniquely positioned to elevate the research base by providing its |
| |state-legislated K-3 Plus Program for study. This program (1) extends the |
| |school year by 25 days prior to kindergarten, first, second and third |
| |grades; (2) creates smaller class sizes with instruction focused on |
| |literacy, math and social skills; (3) is delivered by highly qualified |
| |teachers who are also given professional development opportunities in |
| |literacy; (4) includes services such as school breakfast, lunch and |
| |transportation; and (5) includes a parent involvement component. |
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| |Over 5 years, the New Mexico Extended School Year K-3 Study (New K-3) will |
| |evaluate the effects of New Mexico's extended school year model across four |
| |New Mexico school districts. Student outcomes in literacy, numeracy and |
| |social skills will be determined. Moreover, the program's cost benefits will|
| |also be determined. The intervention will be implemented, consistent with |
| |K-3 Plus legislative intervention requirements, with 570 students enrolled |
| |in persistently low-performing schools in Gallup-McKinley (a rural, |
| |low-income school), Albuquerque, Gadsden and Las Cruces school districts in |
| |Years 1 and 5 (1,140 students in years 2, 3, and 4). A comparable number of |
| |students will be enrolled each year in the control group. K-3 Plus learning |
| |opportunities will be provided to all students, including students |
| |categorized as English language learners and students with disabilities. |
| | |
| |The New K-3 study will help to create (1) knowledge of the impact of the |
| |extended school year (i.e., New Mexico's K-3 Plus Program) on students' |
| |academic and social outcomes; (2) cost-effectiveness data on New Mexico's |
| |K-3 Plus Program that will be valuable for state school reform efforts |
| |nationwide; (3) an extended school year model that is cost-effective in |
| |state school reform efforts and that can be replicated and scaled up |
| |nationally to meet the needs of diverse students and schools. |
| | |
| |Disseminating research outcomes will assist scale-up activities at a |
| |national level. Clearly the outcomes of this research will provide an |
| |important addition to the national debate on extended school year services |
| |and effects. This is the intended outcome for the project. |
|Description of Project Continued: |this research will provide an important addition to the national debate on |
| |extended school year services and effects. This is the intended outcome for |
| |the project. |
|Description of Evaluation: |The New K-3 evaluation design is a multisite randomized experiment. Random |
| |assignment to treatment or control group ensures that differences between |
| |the treatment and control groups are not attributable to |
| |nonintervention-related factors. New K-3 includes a cost-effectiveness |
| |analysis of an extended school year intervention, the K-3 Plus Program, |
| |currently being piloted with about 7,000 high-needs students (those in |
| |schools where at least 85 percent of students qualify for free or |
| |reduced-price meals) each year in New Mexico. Service costs and student |
| |outcomes will be compared for students in and out of the program to evaluate|
| |the efficacy, efficiency and feasibility of replication and scale-up. |
|Project Evaluator: |Linda Goetz, 435-797- 3125 |
|Organization: |Center for Persons with Disabilities Utah State University |
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