Social and Emotional Development

In 2005 Yale researcher William Gilliam found that pre-kindergarten programs expell children with disturbing frequency. Pre-k programs expell nearly 7 out of 1,000 students annually--that's 3 times the rate at which public schools expell K-12 students. This shocking finding gained national news coverage, and raised important questions about how well our patchwork of public, private, and community-based pre-k providers is equipped to serve children with behavior and other problems.

Now Gilliam's back with a new report that looks at what policymakers and pre-k providers can do to reduce the number of pre-k expulsions. Gilliam offers seven recommendations: