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Roofe, Carmel G. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2014
The attainment of Education for All (EFA) goals is crucial to the productivity of any country. However attaining these goals cannot be realised unless due consideration is given to the inputs and processes that must be enacted to achieve such goals. In this article, the Revised Primary Curriculum (RPC) used at grades one to three in Jamaican…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Curriculum, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Margetts, Kay; Phatudi, Nkidi Caroline – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2013
In South Africa, the development of the 2001 White Paper No. 5 on Early Childhood Development (ECD) has been an instrumental policy in the development of changes to assist in preparing children for formal schooling, along with a strong focus on early childhood education. However the extent to which these are being enacted is relatively unknown.…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Principals
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Levitt, Steven D.; Fryer, Roland G. – Education Next, 2004
On average, black students typically score one standard deviation below white students on standardized tests--roughly the difference in performance between the average 4th grader and the average 8th grader. Historically, what has come to be known as the black-white test-score gap has emerged before children enter kindergarten and has tended to…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Family Characteristics, African American Students, White Students