Providing Quality Early Childhood Development Education: A Poverty Reduction Agenda

Leading for quality improvement: a comparative research agenda in early childhood education in England and Hong Kong

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Running Head: EARLY CHILDHOOD POVERTY Early Childhood Poverty and Inflammation in Adulthood

Research on the association between childhood poverty and adult cardiovascular illness has suggested that inflammation may be a key mediator explaining the differences in cardiovascular risk. A limitation of this literature is that studies have primarily examined childhood economic status retrospectively or at only one point in time. This study uses data (n = 919) from the US Panel Study of Inc...

Early Childhood Education Programns

H T ead Start is a preschool program for disadvantaged children which aims to improve their skills so that they can begin schooling on an equal footing with their more advantaged peers. Begun in 1965 as part of PresidentJohnson's "War on Poverty," Head Start now serves over 800,000 children in predominantly part-day programs, almost 50 percent of eligible three and four year-old poor children (...

Early Childhood Education Programs

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Getting the basics right Contribution of Early Childhood Development to quality, equity and efficiency in education