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The Slow Pace of Reform in a Time of Criticism, Crisis, Creativity and Opportunity: A Call for Transformative Visions and Actions
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Marianne N. Bloch; Meredith Whye – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
The recently revised NAEYC position papers and the fourth edition of NAEYC's Developmentally Appropriate Guidelines (NAEYC. 2022. "Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs: Serving Children from Birth through Age 8," edited by S. Friedman, 4th ed. Washington: National Association for the Education of Young…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Early Childhood Education, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities
The Significance of National Association for the Education of Young Children Accreditation in Elevating Quality of Early Childhood Education: Administrators', Teachers', and Parents' Beliefs about Accreditation and Its Process
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Vardanyan, Kristine – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The following is a doctoral dissertation that studied administrators', teachers', and parents' perceptions and attitudes related to an early childhood center/preschool accreditation experience. A qualitative case study of one preschool center focused on the influence that the decision to pursue accreditation and implement the National Association…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Accreditation (Institutions), National Organizations, Qualitative Research
The American Montessori Society, Inc.
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Donahue, Gilbert E. – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2010
This article offers a brief history of the establishment of the American Montessori Society (AMS) and takes a closer look at its structure. The history of AMS has essentially been a search for standards and a search for community in its efforts to further the welfare of children in America. It has been an indigenous effort by American parents, and…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, National Organizations, Nonprofit Organizations
PK-12 Virtual Schools: The Challenges and Roles of School Leaders
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Abrego, Jesus, Jr.; Pankake, Anita – Educational Considerations, 2010
Building and sustaining a school and district culture that has a technology "growth mindset" and the implementation of processes that support a technology-specific culture in which, "the role of the leader is to ensure that the organization develops relationships that help produce desirable results," would ensure that teachers and principals…
Descriptors: Educational Change, National Organizations, Professional Development, Leadership
Issues for the Next Decade of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems. Issue Brief. Publication #2009-14
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Tout, Kathryn; Zaslow, Martha; Halle, Tamara; Forry, Nicole – Child Trends, 2009
Since the first child care Quality Rating System (QRS) was implemented in Oklahoma 11 years ago (in 1998), 16 additional statewide systems have been launched and numerous states are piloting or developing a QRS (Zaslow, Tout, & Martinez-Beck, forthcoming). As QRS stakeholders across the nation look ahead to the next decade, it is important to take…
Descriptors: Human Services, Cooperation, National Organizations, Public Agencies
The Politics of Preschool Education Vouchers in Taiwan
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Ho, Ming-Sho – Comparative Education Review, 2006
In this article, the author offers a causal explanation for the preschool education voucher policy in Taiwan. A causal analysis of voucher politics focuses on the process rather than the result of the innovation. The political success of private kindergarten business interests derives from their capability to open a space for collective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Educational Vouchers, Politics of Education