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Early childhood development and social mobility [PDF]
Steven Barnett and Clive Belfield examine the effects of preschool education on social mobility in the United States. They note that under current policy three- and four-year-old children from economically and educationally disadvantaged families have ...
Barnett, W. Steven, Belfield, Clive R.
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Addressing nutritional literacy in preschool learning environments [PDF]
, 2017 INTRODUCTION: Obesity among preschool children is more common among lower-income families. Prevalence of type 2 diabetes in U.S. Mexican and African American populations has steadily increased and is associated with modifiable risk factors, such as poor ...
Warren, Cynthia
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Policy Capacity Under Decentralization: Kindergarten Education Reforms in the Philippines
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines the relationship between policy capacity and policy effectiveness in decentralized governance setups. It challenges the conventional view that policy functions should only be decentralized when requisite capacities already exist at lower levels of government. Instead, the paper proposes that capacity can follow function ‐ as
Kidjie Ian Saguin, M. Ramesh
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The teaching of evolutionary theory and the Cosmos–Evidence–Ideas model
Evolution: Education and OutreachEvolutionary theory (ET), as many researchers have pointed out, is one of the cornerstones of Biology, whose understanding facilitates the study of all its other fields since it offers general and dominant explanations for the phenomena it examines. Thus,
Ntinolazou Christina +1 more
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Parental Conversation Styles and Learning Science With Preschoolers [PDF]
, 2015 Preschool children participated in a science-learning event about light in their own classroom. The same day as the event, parents or caregivers were instructed to converse with their children at home in the evening about either the science learning ...
Stone, Emily A
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bringing together the literature on policy design, policy capacity and policy making in multilevel systems, this paper argues that the effectiveness of policy design in federal countries depends, ceteris paribus, on the adequacy of federal and local policy capacities.
Giliberto Capano +1 more
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The application of improved AFCNN model for children’s psychological emotion recognition
Scientific ReportsChildren’s mental health has become an increasingly prominent concern in modern education. However, insufficient attention from schools and families to children’s psychological and emotional issues has exacerbated the problem.
Feiqin Wang, Jianping Dong
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