Diversity and equity are central concerns in early childhood education. However, different approaches to these issues are possible. A comprehensive view would aim to integrate economic, educational and social perspectives rather than favouring one paradigm only. A narrow focus on ...
The effects of early childhood education and care (ECEC) have been widely researched, but most studies focus on targeted or relatively short-term programmes. This paper investigates the long-term effects of a universal ECEC programme and underlying mechanisms. By exploiting differences in expansion ...
Article Open access Published: 13 September 2023 Early-childhood linear growth faltering in low- and middle-income countries Jade Benjamin-Chung, Andrew Mertens, John M. Colford Jr, Alan E. Hubbard, Mark J. van der Laan, Jeremy Coyle, Oleg Sofrygin, Wilson Cai, Anna Nguyen,...
However, increasing educators’ wages in the United States has been difficult. One of the reasons for the difficulty is, unlike the financial support for its Kindergarten-12th grade system, the United States provides insufficient subsidized financial support for its early childhood education and care ...
Abstract Importance Persistent nightmares in childhood have been prospectively associated with psychosis and borderline personality disorder (BPD) in adolescence. However, the extent to which this association is also true for behavioral sleep problems is still unknown, and the potential mechanisms are unexp...
become a subject of increasing interest to the public, Members of Congress, and the Administration. During recent congresses many bills have been introduced that would provide funding to states aiming to facilitate improvements in the quality of, and access to, early childhood education (ECE) ...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight the importance of investments in early childhood care and education (ECCE) and youth development. Given Pakistan’s large young population, and gender and urban-rural inequalities in access to education, training, and employment, such investments offer...
High quality early childhood education and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning have gained recognition as key levers in the progress toward high quality education for all students. STEM activities can be an effective platform for providing rich learning experiences that are...
Early childhood is a time of rapid physiological, cognitive, and social development, affected by various environmental factors. The physical environment, including the environmental microbiome (the entire consortium of microorganisms and their theatre of activity in a given environment), plays an essential...
We recently documented that similarly to childhood-onset schizophrenia, children and adolescents with the broader EOP diagnosis have a two- to three-fold increase in recurrent CNVs relative to individuals with adult-onset schizophrenia [13]. This suggests that genetic burden, particularly for rare high...