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Shaun M. Dougherty; Mary M. Smith; Beth Kelly – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Prior research has clearly established the substantial expected payoffs to investments in early childhood education. However, the ability to deliver early childhood programs differs across communities with access to high quality programing especially hard to establish in rural communities. We study one program, Early Steps to School Success, to…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Early Childhood Education, School Readiness, Kindergarten
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Dockett, Sue; Perry, Bob – Australian Educational Researcher, 2021
While many remote places in Queensland, Australia have access to schools, very few have provision for preschool education. Recent efforts to change this have included the development of a kindergarten program delivered through the local school. An impact assessment undertaken in 2017 involved visiting 30 remote sites offering the program. Analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Rural Education, Teacher Attitudes
Stephanie Michelle Horton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Recent data have shown that up to 65% of students in Grades 4 and 8 are reading below grade level. The problem addressed in this study was that students with a high dialect density have a more difficult time with mastery of foundational skills in reading, leading to unfortunate reading mastery outcomes as they progress through school. The purpose…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Role, Dialects, Rural Education
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Nookathoti, Trinadh – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
Field of education is associated with herculean task and innate responsibility of escorting societies forward. Across space and time, it has been an unambiguous synthesis that education should precede any progress or change. It helps humans to understand themselves and better their interaction with rest of the society. Hence the field of education…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Educational History, Social Bias, Role of Education
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Vong, Keang-ieng P.; Li, Min Y. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2016
The "Miao" ethnic group is among the 56 minority groups in China. Their ideas of education for young children differ from that of the mainstream education system in China. This study examines the scenario of early childhood education for "Miao" children living in villages of Guizhou Province. It discusses the history and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Kindergarten, Minority Group Students
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2020
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2020, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.), that this year had to be transformed into a fully Virtual Conference as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic. Modern…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology