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Rasheed, Muneera A.; Siyal, Saima; Arshad, Alma; Farid, Arooba A.; Obradovic, Jelena; Yousafzai, Aisha K. – Improving Schools, 2021
Early parenting interventions have shown to be effective for changing parenting behaviours to provide stimulation at home. However, evidence about the effect on decision to timely enrol the child in preschool and the related pathways is scarce. A follow-up study of a rural cohort exposed to early parenting interventions in the first 2 years of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Rural Areas
National Academies Press, 2016
The World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as "the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life." These forces and systems include economic policies, development agendas, cultural and social norms, social policies,…
Descriptors: Health Education, Barriers, Social Influences, Professional Education
Ruiz de Velasco, Jorge – John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2015
The learning demands of college, career, and civic readiness imply that all young people in public schools must have access to deeper learning opportunities that will prepare them to master rigorous academic content, think critically, work collaboratively, and learn to apply classroom learning to real-world contexts. As well, districts are being…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Change, Career Readiness, College Readiness
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Cohen, Jennifer L. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2010
Public education discourse in the USA has been characterized by messages of crisis shaping education policies across national contexts. Education policy solutions target a lack of qualified teachers and insufficient oversight of teacher practice as central factors in the crisis, placing teacher identity as knowledgeable, authoritative…
Descriptors: Criticism, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change, Accountability