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Okatch, Dorothy – Childhood Education, 2021
Young people in East and Southern Africa need greater access to reliable information about health and education in order to make informed decisions on health matters--focusing on HIV and teenage pregnancy--and to increase basic education outcomes. Young 1ove organization, established in March 2014 in Gaborone, Botswana, is a grassroots, youth-led,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Health Promotion, Peer Teaching
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Lehrl, Simone; Kluczniok, Katharina; Rossbach, Hans-Guenther; Anders, Yvonne – Global Education Review, 2017
The present study examines how attending the German model project "Kindergarten of the Future in Bavaria" (KiDZ), which provided 138 children (aged 3 to 6) with traditional preschool stimulation combined with cognitive and domain-specific stimulation, is associated with children's competencies in mathematics over time to age 12 compared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Instruction
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Lewis Presser, Ashley; Clements, Margaret; Ginsburg, Herbert; Ertle, Barbrina – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: Big Math for Little Kids (BMLK) is a mathematics curriculum developed for use with 4- and 5-year-old children. To investigate the BMLK curriculum's effect on children's mathematics knowledge, this cluster-randomized controlled trial randomly assigned child care centers to provide mathematics instruction to children, using either…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
Mercado-Garcia, Diana; Manship, Karen; Quick, Heather E.; Holod, Aleksandra – American Institutes for Research, 2014
In 2010, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the Kindergarten Readiness Act into law. The law changed the kindergarten entry cutoff so that children must turn five by September 1 to enter kindergarten. The law also established a new grade level--Transitional Kindergarten (TK)--which is the first year of a two-year kindergarten experience for…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Entrance Age, School Readiness, Transitional Programs
Capizzano, Jeffrey; Bischoff, Kendra; Woodroffe, Nicola; Chaplin, Duncan – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2007
Based on positive results from a previous evaluation of a summer learning intervention, the current report describes the specific elements of the successful program so it can be replicated, and investigates potential barriers to implementation and replication. The study estimated impacts of the program overall; the authors could not identify which…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Psychoeducational Methods, Acceleration (Education), Summer Programs
Mueller, Daniel P. – 1997
A goal of the St. Paul (Minnesota) Head Start/Public School Early Childhood Transition Demonstration Project is to promote the implementation of developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) in kindergarten through third-grade classrooms through teacher training and the provision of related materials. This project is 1 of 31 sites participating in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Demonstration Programs, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Kaul, Venita; And Others – 1991
Noting a developmentally inappropriate trend toward earlier instruction in mathematics, a study examined the effects of a systematic, process-based, developmentally appropriate program for the development of number readiness in Indian kindergarten (preschool) children aged 4 and 5. An experimental group of 20 children received the process-based…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages, Developmentally Appropriate Practices