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Direct linkPascal, Chris; Bertram, Tony; Cole-Albäck, Aline; Holt-White, Erica; Farquharson, Christine – Sutton Trust, 2021
A child's early years play a significant role in determining their chances later on in life, including their chances of social mobility. But the poorest children are already 11 months behind their peers when they start at primary school, with efforts to close the gap stalling, and evidence that the gap has started to widen once again in recent…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Van Meeteren, Beth Dykstra, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
Children are intrigued by moving objects, even more so when they can engineer the movement. This volume in the STEM for Our Youngest Learners Series uses Ramps and Pathways as a context to provide children ages 3-8 with opportunities to engage in STEM every day. Ramps and Pathways is a meaningful and fun way for children to develop engineering…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Communities of Practice
Haskins, Ron, Ed.; Barnett, W. Steven, Ed. – Brookings Institution, 2010
This volume explores whether the nation's early childhood programs are boosting child development and preparing children for schooling and proposes reforms that would improve the programs. The volume contains contrasting papers on the success of Head Start, Early Head Start, and home-visiting programs and on policies that would improve these three…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Young Children, Child Development
Meece, Judith L., Ed.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
Children spend more time in school than in any social institution outside the home. And schools probably exert more influence on children's development and life chances than any environment beyond the home and neighbourhood. The purpose of this book is to document some important ways schools influence children's development and to describe various…
Descriptors: Guides, Educational Research, Child Development, Teacher Student Relationship
Nakou, S., Ed.; Pantelakis, S., Ed. – Pergamon Press, 2005
This book provides an interdisciplinary projection of the factors affecting the lives of Europe's children in the coming decades. It is a sequel to a volume of the same name, published in 1979. Europe is undergoing dramatic changes, demographic, political and technological, which will influence the health, well-being and potential of children.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Special Needs Students, Economic Change
PDF pending restorationWest Contra Costa Unified School District, CA. – 1996
The documents in this collection relate to the Homeless Education Project conducted in the elementary and secondary schools of the West Contra Costa Unified School District (California). The first document is a chart describing the project and its main goals: (1) an accelerated curriculum in reading and mathematics; (2) effective procedures for…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Access to Education, Cambodian, Child Development
Zigler, Edward, Ed.; Styfco, Sally J., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2004
The future of Head Start depends on how well people learn from and apply the lessons from its past. That's why everyone involved in early education needs this timely, forward-thinking book from the leader of Head Start. The first book to capture the Head Start debates in all their complexity and diversity, this landmark volume brings together the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, School Readiness, Social Work, Parent Participation
Kogan, Barry S., Ed. – 1997
This book examines the agenda of public education, offering formal presentations from a 1994 symposium on educational finance and a 1994 conference on rethinking public education. There are 12 chapters: (1) "School Reform: The Riddle of Change and Stability" (Larry Cuban); (2) "What Are We Learning about Learning in Schools?"…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Child Development, Classroom Techniques
