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OECD Publishing, 2017
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) can help lay the foundations for future skills development, well-being and learning. Having timely, reliable and comparable international information is essential to help countries improve their ECEC services and systems. For over 15 years, the OECD has been conducting policy analysis and gathering new…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Lucas, Samuel Roundfield – 1999
This book explores the consequences of the abandonment of formal tracking systems in U.S. high schools, and how or whether this dramatic change provided students with the educational opportunity and mobility previously denied them. Drawing on nationally representative data and sophisticated methodologies, this book examines how the contemporary…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth, Equal Education, High School Students
Johnson, William C., Ed. – 1973
Previously published articles on child development and learning are collected in this textbook for college students. Topics include cognitive development, achievement behavior, and social development. (SBT)
Descriptors: Achievement, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Creativity
Pelo, Ann, Ed. – Rethinking Schools, Ltd, 2008
"Rethinking Early Childhood Education" is alive with the conviction that teaching young children involves values and vision. This anthology collects inspiring stories about social justice teaching with young children. Included here is outstanding writing from childcare teachers, early-grade public school teachers, scholars, and parents.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Holidays, Play
Dentler, Robert A.; Hafner, Anne L. – 1997
The study described in this book was designed by the Southwest Regional Laboratory as part of a proposal to create a Metropolitan Center for the Far West Laboratory. The Center would focus on the challenges facing urban educators in its service area. Metropolitan school districts, characterized by high numbers of minority students, successfully…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary School Services, Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth
Jones, Reginald L., Ed. – 1976
Provided are 16 author-contributed papers dealing with theoretical questions and practical concerns relating to the effect of mainstreaming on the minority child. The text is divided into five parts: overview and perspectives, educational assessment for mainstream placement, curriculum issues and teaching strategies, evaluation and research, and…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingualism, Blacks, Cultural Differences
Klaurens, Mary K., Ed.; Trapnell, Gail, Ed. – 1974
The volume on current perspectives in distributive education contains 29 individually authored articles organized into three sections. The first section on program conceptualization deals with the following subjects: the evolution of distributive education, program planning, advisory committees, placement services, postsecondary distributive…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Advisory Committees, Anthologies, Career Education