Chicago School Readiness Project

In 2003, Associate Professor C. Cybele Raver received a $3.3 million, five-year grant to support a Chicago-based collaborative research project on school readiness. The study is examining young children's emotional readiness for school and academic achievement as they make the transition from preschool to elementary school. Funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Administration for Children and Families, the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, this grant is part of a larger research initiative by the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Education to help prepare young children for school.

Related Information:

• Research Report 2004 coverage on Raver's research
• Raver's Harris School Working Papers
• Read article in the University of Chicago Chronicle (November 2003): "Harris' Raver gets funding to study school readiness, academic advances"
• Read HHS press release (December 2003): HHS, Education Launch Research to Promote School Readiness Effort