Ep. 4 - The Impacts of Home and School Environment in Pre-school: Interview with Meghan McCormick

In this episode, we speak with Dr Meghan McCormick, Research Associate at MDRC and lead researcher on Boston’s Public Pre-Kindergarten Project. Dr McCormick has extensive research experience examining the roles of the home, school and neighborhood contexts on children’s development. Today she focuses on “constrained” vs “unconstrained” activities in which young children are involved at home and school, and the benefits of unconstrained activities. We also get into a great conversation with Meghan on how to choose a good preschool for your children. You can find Dr Meghan McCormick on Twitter @meghan_mccorm and https://www.mdrc.org/about/meghan-mccormick McCormick, M., Weiland, C., Hsueh, J., Pralica, M., Weissman, A. K., Moffett, L., Snow, C., & Sachs, J. (2021). Is skill type the key to the prek fadeout puzzle? Differential associations between enrollment in pre k and constrained and unconstrained skills across kindergarten. Child Development, 1-22.