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Ready4K!

Dear JCPS Ready4K! Presents Ready Texts: Text messages to boost your child’s learning.ready4k_logo

Ready4K! text messages include FUN FACTS and EASY TIPS to help you prepare your child for kindergarten. You can choose to stop receiving texts at any time by replying STOP to any message. Fill out the form below start receiving Ready4K! texts in early 2020.

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The problem: The gap in parenting between rich and poor families is extreme. By the age of four, low-income children in the U.S. hear 30 million fewer words at home than high-income children (Hart & Risley, 1995). Such disparities have huge long-term consequences for individuals and society as a whole, given strong links between parental involvement, student achievement, and later life economic outcomes (Anderson, 2006; Heckman, 2006). To-date, few interventions have improved parenting, and those programs with some evidence of effectiveness are too costly to scale (Duncan, Ludwig & Magnuson, 2010). Many programs fail because they place significant demands on parents’ time and effort and inundate parents with information that is difficult to remember and put into practice. Typical parenting workshops, for example, suffer from turnout rates as low as 50 percent and dropout rates as high as 50 percent; and, parents who likely need the most support drop out with the highest frequency (Brotman et al., 2001; Miller & Pennucci, 2004).

Our approach: By leveraging new insights from the behavioral sciences and trends in consumer technology, ReadyTexts meets even the most difficult to reach parents where they are – on their cell phones. Through text messaging, we break down the complexity of high quality parenting into small steps that are easy to achieve and provide continuous encouragement and support over an extended period of time. Each week, we send parents three texts to help them build their children’s skills by exploiting existing family routines in fun and easy ways:

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Given its widespread use, low cost, and ease of scalability, text messaging is the ideal vehicle for providing parents with small bits of helpful information. 97 percent of American adults under 50 have cell phones, 98 percent of cell phone owners can access texts, and text messages have a 95 percent open rate (Ehrlich, 2013; Zickuhr & Smith, 2012). Moreover, texting has proven efficacy in similar behavior change applications. A growing body of experimental research in healthcare shows that the frequent provision of well-designed texts can improve a wide range of health outcomes (Patrick et al., 2009; Petrie, Perry, Broadbent & Weinman, 2012; Rodgers et al., 2005; Yoon & Kim, 2008). In education, texting has led to improvements in grade point average and college matriculation rates (Bergman, 2014; Castleman and Page, 2013).

Ready4K! Studies: During the 2013-14 school year, we conducted a randomized controlled trial study of Reay4K!, a ReadyTexts program for parents of four year olds focused on literacy. We found that the program increased parental involvement at home and school, ultimately leading to two to three months of child learning gains in literacy (York & Loeb, 2014). In a follow-up study, these effects persisted after parents received another year of texts (Doss, Fahle, Loeb & York, forthcoming). The results of this research have been highlighted in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and Education Week.


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