Using proprietary data collected prior to the establishment of the public Universal Prekindergarten program in New York City, this study finds statistically significant differences in test-taking rates for the city’s Gifted & Talented (G & T) program between two matched samples of students—those who attended a public prekindergarten (pre-K) program and those who did not—for each of four cohorts from 2008 to 2011, favoring the public pre-K group. Results also demonstrate that access to information about the G & T program is a plausible mechanism underlying the higher test-taking rates among the public pre-K group, especially for underrepresented groups. With the establishment of the Universal Prekindergarten in New York City in 2015, our results highlight the importance of instituting new policies for promoting the dissemination of information regarding the G & T admissions process within the public school sector. If targeted to address diversity in G & T, such policies could help reduce inequality in gifted education.

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天才幼儿园的应试：强调外展的重要性

本研究使用在纽约市建立公共通用学前班计划之前收集的专有数据，发现两个匹配的学生样本之间在纽约市的天才与天才 (G&T) 计划的考试率上存在显着差异。从 2008 年到 2011 年的四个队列中，谁参加了公共学前班 (pre-K) 计划，而那些没有参加，则偏向于公共学前班。结果还表明，获取有关 G & T 计划的信息是公共 pre-K 群体（尤其是代表性不足的群体）较高考试率的一种看似合理的机制。随着2015年纽约市环球幼儿园的成立，我们的结果强调了制定新政策以促进公立学校部门内 G&T 招生流程信息传播的重要性。如果旨在解决 G＆T 的多样性，此类政策将有助于减少天才教育中的不平等。