{"id":17024,"date":"2024-02-12T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/?p=17024"},"modified":"2024-02-08T17:06:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T01:06:56","slug":"segregated-preschools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/2024\/02\/12\/segregated-preschools\/","title":{"rendered":"Can A Segregated Preschool be \u201cHigh Quality\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2024\/02\/Blog-Post-Featured-Image-Casey-Stockstill-book-768x432.png\"\n          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\u201cHigh Quality\u201d?<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n    \n          <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span>Casey Stockstill, assistant professor of sociology at Dartmouth College<\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">February 12, 2024<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span class=\"a2a_svg a2a_s__default a2a_s_copy_link\">\n              <svg height=\"19\" viewBox=\"0 0 19 19\" width=\"19\" 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cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the United States, attending preschool is neither required nor guaranteed. Yet more than <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/fastfacts\/display.asp?id=4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">70% of 4-year-old children<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> attend preschool. Many preschoolers are having their first experience of group learning and are relating to a peer group for the first time. Research shows that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0273229712000214\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">early, positive contact<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with people of other racial groups increases the chances of positive contact later on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rather than an early learning experience where children can make friends across race and class divides, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prrac.org\/pdf\/A_Better_Start.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">two-thirds of preschoolers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> attend segregated preschools. That is, their classrooms are either majority affluent and white, or majority poor children of color. Preschools are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban.org\/features\/segregated-start\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more segregated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> than elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools. I spent two years closely observing children\u2019s experiences in segregated preschools for my book, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/false-starts-the-segregated-lives-of-preschoolers-casey-stockstill\/19915787\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers.<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I wanted to understand children\u2019s perspective on their classrooms. I used something called the \u201cleast adult approach,\u201d where I minimized my authoritative status as an adult. I avoided sanctioning, scolding, or instructing children. This allowed me to be partially accepted into children\u2019s peer worlds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17028  alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2024\/02\/false_starts_book_cover-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2024\/02\/false_starts_book_cover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2024\/02\/false_starts_book_cover.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the start of my research on children&#8217;s experiences of preschool, I thought what mattered was that poor children and children of color could access classrooms rated as &#8220;high-quality.&#8221; I had an implicit understanding that preschools were segregated by race and class. I observed two classrooms, both rated among the top 10% of preschools in Wisconsin, but both highly segregated. One preschool, which I call Great Beginnings, served almost all white children, and all the students came from affluent families. The second preschool, which I call Sunshine Head Start, served almost all children of color, and all students were poor. I could see the influence of the layered expectations that a preschool must adhere to in order to be designated high quality. At both schools, the teachers had bachelor&#8217;s degrees and many years of experience. The schools used a play-based curriculum which is considered to be a best practice for preschool and their class sizes and teacher-student ratios that were well below the recommended benchmarks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Segregation at Play<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In accordance with recommendations for high-quality early learning, both preschools offered about an hour of indoor play. At Sunshine Head Start, most of the class played autonomously and the Sunshine Head Start teachers gave the children relative autonomy to control their activities.\u00a0 The children decided where, and with whom to play. When children finished\u00a0 with a play area\u2014like the Block Area\u2014they could clean up and choose where to play next. In this system, the kids developed their own\u00a0 peer-based system for starting pretend play with one another. They could also deal with newcomers to play and sort out conflict among themselves. Teachers were occupied with paperwork from fluctuating enrollment and tracking intervention programs designed to help children in poverty. The teachers also focused most of their attention on a handful of children with challenging behaviors\u2014such as hitting, kicking, or biting. In many cases, children behaving in these ways were facing family disruptions like eviction, parental incarceration, or housing instability. Such disruptions happen more often to poor families and families of color.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because I observed Head Start first, I thought the autonomy children had during indoor play was uniformly positive. The kids were developing creativity, independence, and problem solving. This is what I would think preschool is for.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then I observed\u00a0 Great Beginnings where they also had an hour of indoor play. The Great Beginnings teachers were not dealing with fluctuating enrollment, or multiple children acting out. In the year I observed, the teachers said they had one child who had needed extra attention. But by February, the extra attention they gave this child had resulted in more predictable behavior from him. With their spare time, the teachers were highly involved in the kids\u2019 play. They curated children&#8217;s playmates and used a timer system to have the children rotate through play centers. This encouraged well-rounded skill development, but it also prevented peer conflict and limited children&#8217;s creativity. While children played, teachers observed and commented on elements of what children did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Children had vastly different experiences of \u201cfree play\u201d in these segregated preschools. This was surprising to me, given that both preschools were designated as high-quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We imagine that preschoolers will enter kindergarten poised to take full advantage of learning and social opportunities. Yet my book shows that when preschool classrooms are segregated, they foster poor children&#8217;s sense of distance from teachers and encourage affluent children&#8217;s sense of entitlement to special attention from teachers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>The Transition to Kindergarten<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After moving to kindergarten from their high-quality preschools, I worry about how the Sunshine Head Start and the Great Beginnings children will experience elementary schools. If the Sunshine Head Start children encounter elementary school classrooms that reward their creativity and problem-solving, they will benefit from how they learned to play in preschool. However, if they go to elementary schools that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/0003122411427177\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reward children who make requests and feel entitled to adult attention<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Sunshine Head Start children will be at a disadvantage compared to the Great Beginnings children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My research has convinced me that, just like in other institutions of American life, separate cannot be equal. Designations of \u201cquality\u201d do not capture segregation or its many unintended consequences. Fortunately, preschool segregation is a fixable problem. Unlike K12 education in the United States, where we built out many school districts in a landscape of legal segregation, our preschool system is unfinished.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expanding preschool access remains a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nieer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/TOC_and_Full_Appendices_2019.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">popular policy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Head Start enjoys bipartisan support. As we increase funding and expand preschools, we can encourage class and race integration. We can also support programs that are segregated for the purpose of being culturally affirming learning spaces for children of color.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <hr \/>\n<p>\u00a9 2024. This work is licensed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17025 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2024\/02\/casey_stockstill_bio-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A female presenting, African American woman smiling with chin length curly dark hair, glasses, and wearing a blue sweater. In the background are trees and small body of water.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2024\/02\/casey_stockstill_bio-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2024\/02\/casey_stockstill_bio.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>About the author: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caseystockstill.com\/\">Casey Stockstill<\/a> is an assistant professor of sociology at Dartmouth College. She is a race scholar and microsociologist. In her research, she uses ethnography, interviews, surveys, and experiments to investigate how micro-level interactions relate to institutional and structural inequalities. 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