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Child Care Bureau, 2010
"Child Care Helps America Work and Learn" is a new publication produced by the Child Care Bureau. This new series will highlight some of the many Recovery Act-funded child care success stories from communities across the country that illustrate how the Bureau is working toward the shared goal of supporting children and families. This…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Child Care, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
Kingombe, Christian – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
The impact of vocational training on economic growth and poverty reduction in African countries is unknown. Without such knowledge, however, countries and donors cannot formulate appropriate policies. Even the 35 countries surveyed in the 2008 "African Economic Outlook" can only supply approximate data. More and better data are needed to…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship
Hanssen, Elizabeth, Ed.; Zimanyi, Louise, Ed. – Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development, 2004
The "Coordinators' Notebook" is a twice-annual publication of the Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development. This issue summarizes some important information about early childhood care and development (ECCD); shares case studies of effective examples of ECCD; helps ECCD advocates think through what they may need to do…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Virtual Universities, Quality of Life, Young Children
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Parker, Laurence – Review of Research in Education, 2005
Passed by the U.S. Congress in the spring of 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was one of the most significant and expansive education policy initiatives ever undertaken by the federal government. The main component of the act, Title I, allocated significant resources to…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Public Education