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Dorman, Rebekah L.; Anthony, Elizabeth; Osborne-Fears, Billie; Fischer, Robert L. – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2017
Large numbers of children of low income families in the United States arrive at kindergarten already far behind their more affluent peers on measures of school readiness. In the absence of any federal preschool policy and amidst alarm about this growing divide, universal prekindergarten (UPK) programs have been launched around the United States,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Urban Areas, Educational Quality, Achievement Gap
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Correa, Doris; González, Adriana – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
In an effort to become more competitive in the global market, Colombia, as many other Latin American countries, has declared English the dominant foreign language to be taught in schools and universities across the country. To support this measure, in the last 16 years, the government, through its National Ministry of Education, has launched a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Primary Education