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Raikes, Abbie; Sayre, Rebecca; Davis, Dawn; Anderson, Kate; Hyson, Marilou; Seminario, Evelyn; Burton, Anna – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2019
Measuring Early Learning Quality & Outcomes (MELQO) was initiated to address needs for child development and quality of early childhood education (ECE) data, specifically for low- and middle-income countries. Drawing from existing tools, MELQO convened a consortium to create open-source tools to be adapted to national contexts, simultaneously…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Outcomes of Education, Child Development, Early Childhood Education
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Ackerman-Ross, Susan; Khanna, Prabha – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1989
Compared day care and home-reared children's language performance. Results showed home and day care children did not differ on IQ or dependent language measures. IQ was strongest predictor of language performance; birth order was next strongest. Fathers' language activity time and parent educational level related to language performance.…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Comparative Analysis, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Nelson, Anne – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2006
In popular culture, the age of 40 is sometimes considered "over the hill." This is decidedly not the case for the Perry Preschoolers--a cohort of low-income, predominantly African American children who 37 years ago were randomly assigned to attend a high-quality preschool program. The latest findings from the well-known longitudinal study of this…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Comparative Analysis, African American Children, Middle Class