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Nugroho, Dita; Jeon, Youngkwang; Kamei, Akito; Lopez Boo, Florencia – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2021
This paper presents a new estimate that pre-primary school closures in 2020 may cost today's young children US$ 1.6 trillion in lost earnings over their lifetimes. However, most low-and-middle income countries are leaving pre-primary education out of their responses to COVID-19. This paper also draws lessons from accelerated, bridging, and…
Descriptors: Preschools, School Closing, COVID-19, Pandemics
McConnell-Farmer, Judith Lynne; Cook, Pamela R.; Farmer, M. W. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2012
Early childhood education (ECE) provision is becoming a growing priority. During the past twenty years, Latin America has shown a growing recognition in the provision of educational programs for young children, birth to age eight, is essential. Urban and rural populations intimated in 2009, that many countries utilizing equitable access to…
Descriptors: Child Care, Latin Americans, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education
Woodhead, Martin; Ames, Patricia; Vennam, Uma; Abebe, Workneh; Streuli, Natalia – Bernard van Leer Foundation (NJ1), 2009
Part of the "Studies in Early Transitions" series, this Working Paper draws on interviews and observations carried out as part of "Young Lives", a 15-year longitudinal study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam based at the University of Oxford's Department of International Development. This paper focuses…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries
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Neugebauer, Sabina Rak; Currie-Rubin, Rachel – Reading Teacher, 2009
A read-aloud program focused on vocabulary and comprehension skills for children bilingual in Quechua and Spanish was evaluated for efficacy. The authors present a study with classrooms of first-grade students, suggesting that specific read-aloud strategies that target the use of background knowledge in a discussion-based format can be a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Aloud to Others, Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction
Vogler, Pia; Crivello, Gina; Woodhead, Martin – Bernard van Leer Foundation (NJ1), 2008
Children face many important changes in the first eight years of life, including different learning centres, social groups, roles and expectations. Their ability to adapt to such a dynamic and evolving environment directly affects their sense of identity and status within their community over the short and long term. In particular, the key turning…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Change, Child Development
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Izu, Regina Moromizato – International Review of Education, 2006
The present study examines educational policy documents and programs on early childhood development and education in Peru. The author provides an evaluation of early childhood learning programs and their outcomes in different education centers in Peru. Health, nutrition, development, and participation are identified as key areas of concern. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education