The Chicago School Readiness Project

The Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP) was a federally-funded randomized control-trial intervention developed by Dr. Cybele Raver. The aim of CSRP was to improve low-income, preschool-aged children's chances of success in school. CSRP targeted young children's emotional and behavioral adjustment through a comprehensive, classroom-based intervention in Head Start. Through additional funding from the Institute of Education Sciences and the National Institutes of Health, we followed CSRP participants into high school to study the long-term effects of the program on children’s social-emotional and academic outcomes. 

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Additional information on CSRP is available here.

Recent Publications

Watts, T. W., Li, C., Pan, X. S., Gandhi, J., McCoy, D. C., & Raver, C. C. (2023). Impacts of the Chicago School Readiness Project on measures of achievement, cognitive functioning, and behavioral regulation in late adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 59(12), 2204.

McCoy, D. C., Gonzalez, K. E., & Jones, S. J. (2019). Preschool self-regulation and academic skills as mediators of the long-term impacts of an early intervention. Child Development, 90(5), 1544-1558.

McCoy, D. C., Jones, S., Roy, A., & Raver, C. C. (2018). Classifying social-emotional trajectories through elementary school: Impacts of the Chicago School Readiness Project. Developmental Psychology, 54, 772-787.