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Download full textIheoma U. Iruka; Rachel Kaplan; Milton Suggs; Rosalind Kotz – FPG Child Development Institute, 2024
Despite increased attention to racial disparities in health, wellbeing, and academic outcomes--especially for Black, Latine, and Native American children and children from low-income households--little progress has been made in identifying the root causes of those disparities and, more importantly, identifying equitable policies and strategies to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Educational Policy
Direct linkZipi Diamond; Rowan Hilty; Holly Keaton; Catherine Schaefer; Keiyitho Omonuwa – Child Trends, 2024
In March 2022, Child Trends contracted with the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) to conduct an independent evaluation of Parent Aware, Minnesota's quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) for early care and education (ECE) programs. The evaluation, required by the 2021 Minnesota Legislature, includes several research activities…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewedSongtian Zeng; Yujin Lee; Becky L DelVecchio; Lynne Mendes; Anne Douglass – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Even though the tenuous financial model for Early Care and Education (ECE) is one of the primary reasons for many ECE programs' permanent closing, considerably little attention has been devoted to supporting ECE leaders' business knowledge and skills. Supporting the leadership and business practices can be an effective strategy for ensuring a…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Business Administration, Child Caregivers, Child Care
Swanson, Loraine; Menon, Meera; Minogue, Amber; Russell, Rebecca; Berns, Scott – Infants and Young Children, 2023
Given the proportion of young children experiencing disadvantages in achieving optimal health due to inequities related to race, place, and income, there is increasing attention to developing effective early childhood (EC) systems. As EC leaders embrace methods such as collective impact in driving systems change, there is a growing recognition…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Program Improvement, Educational Innovation
Marcelo Castro; Breno da Cruz – Education Economics, 2024
This paper assesses the impacts of a large-scale program aimed at constructing daycare and preschool centers in Brazil named Proinfância, which funded new buildings in nearly 45% of the municipalities between 2008 and 2017. We find a significant increase in early education care in the jurisdictions that participated in the program more than a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Facilities, Labor Force
Ho Uyen Tran – Natural Sciences Education, 2024
Environmental education is an important task conducted in schools at all levels, from preschool to university. This study uses a systematic review of the existing literature to analyze the status quo of pre-service preschool teachers' environmental competencies and the strategies for approaching environmental education in preschool teacher…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Preschool Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Anne Douglass; Kelly Maxwell; Kathryn Tout – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2023
State and territory child care and early education (CCEE) leaders typically support a range of professional development (PD) opportunities for CCEE providers. This highlight presents the "Professional Development Matrix for Quality Improvement" created by Douglass, Tout, and Doyle. The matrix provides a framework for organizing and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Professional Development, Educational Strategies
Mathematica, 2022
Researchers, federal and state policy leaders and administrators, and center directors all seek to understand what drives high quality Early Care and Education (ECE). The Assessing the Implementation and Cost of High Quality Early Care and Education, or ICHQ (pronounced I-check) project, led by Mathematica and funded by the Office of Planning,…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Hafidh 'Aziz; Ajat Sudrajat; Suparno; Perdana Pashela; Laras Putri Azzahra; Nadaina Fadhila Mannana – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
This study aims to explore in greater depth the role of implementing child-friendly schools, parental involvement in enhancing the effectiveness of child-friendly school policies and practices, and evaluating the challenges that arise in the implementation of child-friendly schools. This qualitative descriptive exploratory research utilizes the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Policy, Policy Analysis, Program Evaluation
Maryam Zarra-Nezhad; Katja Suhonen; Nina Sajaniemi – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2024
Early childhood forms the fundamental basis for developing various social-emotional skills and represents a unique opportunity to lay the foundation for healthy development. Insensitive learning environments in early childhood may lead to social-emotional difficulties, increasing the risk of developing severe behavioral problems. However,…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Early Intervention, Program Evaluation, Program Development
Catherine Sheehan; Judith Butler; Cian O' Neill – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Advances in the field of Early Childhood Education & Care (ECEC) are catalysing an important paradigm shift in the understanding of childhood trauma throughout the life course. While there is little dispute regarding the unique role of ECEC practitioners in providing critical support to children who experience trauma, international provisions…
Descriptors: Trauma, Trauma Informed Approach, Training, Early Childhood Education
Jordan Berne; Katia Córdoba García; Brian A. Jacob; Tareena Musaddiq; Samuel Owusu; Anna Shapiro; Christina Weiland – Educational Researcher, 2025
In recent years, several states have expanded a new publicly funded learning option: Transitional Kindergarten (TK). TK bridges prekindergarten and kindergarten in its eligibility, requirements, and design. Using Michigan as a case study, we examine TK's fit in the early learning landscape. Broadly, we find TK in Michigan reduces some…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, School Readiness, Preschool Education, Kindergarten
Ernst, Julie; Budnik, Leah – International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 2022
In light of the significance of empathy in prosocial and conservation behavioral contexts, and with its relevance to social-emotional learning, which is an emphasis in early childhood education, empathy is a timely and meaningful construct to study within the context of nature preschools. Thus, a program evaluation was conducted to explore the…
Descriptors: Empathy, Recreational Facilities, Outdoor Education, Preschools
Peaslee, Liliokanaio; Teye, Amanda C.; Baker, Jeron S. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2023
Background: Recent research suggests that instrumental relationship styles can enhance the effectiveness of school-based mentoring, however, little research has been conducted with young children. This study reports findings from a three-year evaluation of an instrumental Literacy-Enhanced Mentoring (LEM) program that integrates a structured,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Literacy Education
Weiland, Christina; Unterman, Rebecca; Dynarski, Susan; Abenavoli, Rachel; Bloom, Howard; Braga, Breno; Faria, Ann-Marie; Greenberg, Erica H.; Jacob, Brian; Arnold Lincove, Jane; Manship, Karen; McCormick, Meghan; Miratrix, Luke; Monarrez, Tomás E.; Morris-Perez, Pamela; Shapiro, Anna; Valant, Jon; Weixler, Lindsay – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. Our collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next context: (1) available…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
