Lauren Rich
Lauren Rich is a Senior Researcher at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. She is primarily interested in the family and school contexts of children living in poverty, particularly as these contexts relate to school readiness and elementary/middle school achievement among children. In addition to developing analyses of the Palm Beach County longitudinal data, Dr. Rich is currently conducting an evaluation of an initiative designed to bring schools and community-based agencies together to offer extracurricular activities and health and social supports to students and families in Chicago.
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This report draws on a six-year longitudinal study of Palm Beach County, FL, examining parenting, child care enrollment, and other factors that encourage early school success. The authors find kindergarten-age children of Black immigrants have significantly higher odds of being ready for school than children of Latina immigrant or Black U.S.-born mothers.