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Chloe R. Gibbs; Jocelyn Wikle; Riley Wilson – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
As women increasingly entered the labor force throughout the late 20th century, the challenges of balancing work and family came to the forefront. We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children--through duration expansions to the kindergarten day--to better understand mothers' and families' constraints.…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Employed Women, Mothers
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Özkan, Banu – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
This qualitative study aimed to compare the scientific process skills of 5-6 years old preschool children in kindergartens where Reggio Emilia approach was implemented and not implemented. For this purpose, upon obtaining consent forms from the parents, in total 80 purposefully selected children participated in the study; 35 in a kindergarten…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Scientific Literacy, Reggio Emilia Approach, Preschool Education
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Lombardi, Caitlin McPherran; Coley, Rebekah Levine – Child Development, 2017
This study assessed the links between early maternal employment and children's later academic and behavioral skills in Australia and the United Kingdom. Using representative samples of children born in each country from 2000 to 2004 (Australia N = 5,093, U.K. N = 18,497), OLS regression models weighted with propensity scores assessed links between…
Descriptors: Child Development, Foreign Countries, Regression (Statistics), Grade 1
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Oztunc, Hakan; Oo, Zar Chi; Serin, Zehra Vildan – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study examines the extent to which women's education affects long-term economic growth in the Asia Pacific region. It focuses on the time period between 1990 and 2010, using data collected in randomly selected Asia Pacific countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Economic Development, Correlation, Foreign Countries
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Muasya, Gladys – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2016
Young mothers in Kenyan public schools experience a high level of work-family conflict. Currently, there are no formal family-friendly policies, despite declining levels of extended family support and rising cost of hiring domestic workers. A total of 375 female teachers from three towns and Nairobi city filled open-ended surveys to examine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Women Faculty, Urban Schools, Public School Teachers
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Sarvarzade, Somaye; Wotipka, Christine Min – Comparative Education, 2017
Nearly four decades of instability and fragility have led to many changes in the status of women and girls in Afghanistan. Yet, little research focuses on these changes within the education system. To understand the country's stance toward gender issues in formal practice, we examine gender representations in Afghan primary-level Dari language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Females, Gender Issues
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Jabbar, Sinaria Kamil Abdel – Education, 2014
The role of grandparents and other close relatives in caring for the children of working mothers has been diminishing in modern societies everywhere including Jordan. Concurrently, the dependence on housemaids to care for the children of working mothers has been on the rise. The impact of housemaids on young Jordanian children (4-5 years old) was…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Mothers, Employed Women
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Ham, Ok Kyung; Sung, Kyung Mi; Kim, Hee Kyung – Journal of School Nursing, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the association of sociodemographic, psychosocial, and behavioral characteristics with screen time among school-age children in Korea. This study employed a nonexperimental, cross-sectional study design. A total of 370 children attending four elementary schools participated in the study. Self-report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Television Viewing
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1873
In this report, the Commissioner of Education comments on data on city and state education, school superintendence, cost of education and police, increased attention to schoolhouse ventilation, women as school officers, women's education, the Vienna Exposition and awards to American educational exhibitors, American educators' European visits,…
Descriptors: Public Education, Urban Education, Superintendents, Costs