Preschool Expulsion Risk Factors: Teachers' Ratings of Preschoolers' Challenging Behaviors Vary by the Cooperativeness of their Parents.

ABSTRACT: Preschool children in the United States are expelled at a rate of about 250 per day with a disproportionate number being Black children. There is a need to better understand how to prevent preschool expulsion. Using a random-assignment experiment, preschool teachers (N = 95; 92% female; 61% White) were assigned to one of eight conditions: child race (Black vs. White) × child gender (boy vs. girl) × parental cooperativity (cooperative vs. uncooperative). Teachers read two controlled vignettes: one about a child and one about that child's parents. The child vignette described the child's challenging classroom behavior (identical behavior for all children); the parent vignette described a subsequent meeting with the child's parents (half of the parents were described as uncooperative with the

SUBMITTER: Zulauf-McCurdy CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12465125 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature