The influence of standards-based accountability reform on early childhood education policy, preservice teacher education/training, curriculum, and practice; intersection of curriculum and education policy; standards-based accountibility; school experiences of young children; how preservice teachers personal experience with SBA reform and their experience in a preservice teacher education program affect their understanding of their role as a teacher and the role public schooling; how the implementation of a district-wide standardized prekindergarten assessment tool affects stakeholders’ understanding of the role pre-kindergarten as an early childhood intervention and the practice of the program within the school district