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Ansari, Arya; Pivnick, Lilla; Gershoff, Elizabeth; Crosnoe, Robert; Orozco-Lapray, Diana – Grantee Submission, 2018
With a qualitative approach drawing from four focus groups, this study explored what aspects of preschool are valued most by 30 low-income Latino/a immigrant parents with children enrolled in a state-funded preschool program in Texas. Beyond the push and pull factors of necessity, convenience, and supply, parents reported valuing the…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
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Garlick, Steve – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
While it is accepted that there are "sensitive" and "critical" periods of life during which certain human capabilities are more readily acquired, and where the multiplied returns on our investment in human capability building are more significant, it is also argued that there are place-based contexts (society, nature, culture,…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Human Capital, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Developmental Tasks
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Rimashevskaia, N. M.; Breeva, E. B. – Russian Education and Society, 2013
Russia's future is put in jeopardy by a decline in both the size of the population and its health and human capital. There is an urgent need for policies to deal with this problem.
Descriptors: Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Population Growth, Population Trends
Agenda for Children, 2006
The "2006 Agenda for Children Louisiana Kids Count Special Report on Child Care" documents and describes the supply and affordability of child care and early education in each of Louisiana's 64 parishes. Seventy-eight percent (78%) of Louisiana's children under the age of five are cared for by someone other than a parent or guardian on a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Well Being, Employed Parents, Child Care