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From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts: A Science-Based Approach to Building A More Promising Future for Young Children and Families. Key Findings from the Report
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Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2016
These are the key findings from the "From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts: A Science-Based Approach to Building a More Promising Future for Young Children and Families". Early childhood is a time of great promise and rapid change, when the architecture of the developing brain is most open to the influences of relationships and…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Child Development, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Young Children
Alan Rufus Tonelson Teaching and Learning Center.
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Tonelson, Stephen W. – 1989
The Alan Rufus Tonelson Teaching and Learning Center was established in 1988 to explore the nature of urban elementary education through research focusing on classroom, school, home, and community variables that affect the education of high-risk urban children. The results are used to train teachers to work more effectively in urban schools. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Community Characteristics, Educational Environment, Educational Research
Toronto First Duty: Integrating Kindergarten, Childcare, and Parenting Support to Help Diverse Families Connect to Schools
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Pelletier, Janette; Corter, Carl – Multicultural Education, 2005
The focus of this article is a research and development project underway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The project is Toronto First Duty, reflecting that the "first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well-housed, clothed, fed, and educated, till it attain years of discretion," according to 19th century…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Kindergarten, Child Rearing