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Marlous de Milliano; Elizabeth Spier; Belay Hagos Hailu; Varsha Ranjit; Cody Bock; John Downes – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2025
While there is an increasing global call for integrated approaches to early childhood development (ECD) policy-making and implementation, parenting practices are not consistently measured against comprehensive ECD indicators. This study on parenting for ECD in Ethiopia was guided by the Nurturing Care Framework (NCF) to capture parenting practices…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Global Approach
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Marsh, Julie A.; Kennedy, Kate – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: Researchers have amassed considerable evidence on the use of student performance data (e.g., benchmark and standardized state tests) to inform educational improvement, but few have examined the use of nonacademic indicators (e.g., indicators of social and emotional well-being) available to educators, and whether the factors…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Educational Practices, Educational Improvement, Well Being
Coggshall, Jane G.; Ott, Amber – Public Agenda, 2010
As a new decade dawns, teachers stand at the center of a policy vortex. They serve as the primary focus of one of the Obama administration's four pillars of educational reform--effective teachers and leaders. Educational reformers of all stripes have focused tremendous energy on thinking of ways to identify effective teachers and in turn recruit,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Success, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Policy
Heck, Ronald H. – Hawaii Educational Policy Center, 2006
This Policy Brief describes an analysis conducted with a sample of 5,000 elementary students in 123 K-6 elementary schools in Hawai'i to describe students' proficiency levels and individual growth patterns over time and, based on this information, to make judgments about school effectiveness in meeting performance standards. The goal was to…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Academic Achievement, School Effectiveness, Academic Standards