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Prinz, Ronald J. – Future of Children, 2019
Adverse parenting practices, including child maltreatment, interfere with children's adjustment and life outcomes. In this article, Ronald Prinz describes the Triple P--Positive Parenting Program, designed to improve parenting population-wide. Prinz offers four main reasons to take a population approach. First, official records grossly…
Descriptors: Parenting Skills, Child Rearing, Parent Education, Holistic Approach
Shaeffer, Margaret B.; Hook, James – American School Board Journal, 1993
Extra-year programs for children in kindergarten and first grade are not cost effective and have a tendency to keep children out of school. What does work is a developmentally appropriate curriculum for the primary grades that emphasizes integrated learning across the curriculum, small group instruction, and mixed-age grouping. (MLF)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Grade 1, Grade Repetition
Peck, Claudia J.; Bridge, Connie – 1992
The Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) Preschool Programs is a comprehensive early childhood educational delivery system that provides developmentally appropriate practices to children, integrated services to families, and interdisciplinary and interagency collaboration among organizations serving young children in Kentucky. This report…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cost Effectiveness, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Disabilities
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Duncan, Simon; Edwards, Rosalind; Reynolds, Tracey; Alldred, Pam – Children & Society, 2004
Government expansion of child care services is based on the assumption that both parents are employed (the adult worker model) and make cost-benefit calculations in choosing child care (the rational economic choice model). This paper addresses this assumption, based on research examining mothers' assessments of appropriate child care. These…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Care, Family Work Relationship, Models
Glantz, Frederic B.; And Others – 1991
This paper reports on the findings of an evaluation of Project Giant Step, a program funded by New York City to provide comprehensive services to all 4-year-olds in the city, beginning with low-income children who are unserved by existing programs. Both the costs and effects of Project Giant Step are examined. Effects of the program on children…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cost Effectiveness