Early Childhood Education

Katy Yeager Gooding plays with her baby Kennedy Gooding at her grandparents' home in Barboursville, West Virginia, October 18, 2015. Picture taken October 18, 2015. To match Special Report BABY-OPIOIDS/ REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RTX1XMZ3

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Monday, August 21, 2017

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Tuesday, August 15, 2017

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Thursday, August 3, 2017

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Thursday, August 3, 2017

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Friday, June 16, 2017

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Measuring early learning quality and outcomes in Tanzania

Kate Anderson and Rebecca Sayre

Friday, June 16, 2017

Early Childhood Education

Rigorous preschool research illuminates policy (and why the Heckman Equation may not compute)

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Thursday, May 4, 2017

Two-year-and-three-month-old Carlson Chuen undertakes a test of identifying objects during a mock interview, as part of a specialized class preparing toddlers for kindergarten.

Early Childhood Education

Puzzling it out: The current state of scientific knowledge on pre-kindergarten effects

Deborah A. Phillips, Mark W. Lipsey, Kenneth A. Dodge, Ron Haskins, Daphna Bassok, Margaret R. Burchinal, Greg J. Duncan, Mark Dynarski, Katherine A. Magnuson, and Christina Weiland

Monday, April 17, 2017

Children play on a carousel at a kindergarten in Baokang, Hubei province February 29, 2008. China, worried about an aging population, is studying scrapping its controversial one-child policy but will not do away with family-planning policies altogether, a senior official said. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) CHINA OUT - RTR1XPS5

Early Childhood Education

Is your child ready for kindergarten?

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Stephanie Howard Larson

Thursday, April 13, 2017

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A preschooler stays in class as he refuses to join his classmates for outdoor activities during his first day of school in Putrajaya

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Thursday, July 20, 2017

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A high school student tests a "Quipus" laptop during a presentation ceremony in El Alto, July 31, 2014. Some 15,000 public school students received the laptops, assembled by Bolivian state-run company Quipus, during the ceremony. According to local media, El Alto schools will receive a total of some 140,000 laptops this year as part of a government initiative to provide final-year high school students with access to a new laptop, aiming to incorporate the use of new technology in educational institutions. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS SOCIETY) - RTR40UBC

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Teaching for the 21st century: Broader skills for global citizens

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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Students arrive at the Walton Rural Life Center Elementary School, in Walton, Kansas, January 18, 2013. Students at the school do farm chores at the beginning of each school day. The Walton Rural Life Center - a kindergarten through fourth grade charter school in rural Kansas - uses agriculture to teach students about math, science, economics. REUTERS/Jeff Tuttle (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION AGRICULTURE SOCIETY) - RTR3DVPU

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Charter schools and federal power: What’s next for education policy?

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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Pre-schooler Cecil Smith (L), 4, holds the hand of a teacher's assistant as he prepares to go to class after he and classmates were given Mardi Gras beads, on the first day of school since Hurricane Katrina hit over a month ago, at an elementary school in Metairie, Louisiana October 3, 2005. Public schools opened throughout Jefferson Parish, including Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans. REUTERS/Lee Celano - RTR18O4R

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Early Childhood Education

Brain matter matters: Should we intervene well before preschool?

Investing in the next generation: A bottom-up approach to creating better outcomes for children and youth

Meaningful education in times of uncertainty

The challenges of scaling-up findings from education research

Reports

Overview: Measuring early learning quality and outcomes

Measuring early learning quality and outcomes in Tanzania

Rigorous preschool research illuminates policy (and why the Heckman Equation may not compute)

Puzzling it out: The current state of scientific knowledge on pre-kindergarten effects

Is your child ready for kindergarten?

Blog Posts

Building better preschools—but for which kids?

Two years in: How’s the world’s first development impact bond for education doing?

The ‘word gap’ and 1 city’s plan to close it

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