#prek4all

Next in our QUEST Research Lab Spotlights: Pre-Kindergarten for All in NYC, aka the Universal Pre-K (UPK) Project!!

UPK is directed by Dr. Elise Cappella, with doctoral student Jessica Siegel serving as a mentor to QUEST Scholars Fatima Gutierrez Jhong & Onyi Nnajiofor this summer✨.

UPK is an initiative with New York University and NYC Schools Division of Early Childhood Education to foster a research-practice partnership to support the roll-out of universal pre-kindergarten through Pre-K For All improving the quality of its programming. This partnership aims to provide quantitative & capacity-building solutions to educational problems faced by the DOE-DECE.