This study examined relations between children's attention span-persistence in preschool and later school achievement and college completion. Children were drawn from the Colorado Adoption Project using adopted and non-adopted children (N = 430). Results of structural equation modeling indicated that children's age 4 attention span-persistence significantly predicted math and reading achievemen...

Pronounced improvements in executive functions (EF) during preschool years have been documented in cross-sectional studies. However, longitudinal evidence on EF development during the transition to school and predictive associations between early EF and later school achievement are still scarce. This study examined developmental changes in EF across three time-points, the predictive value of EF...

The World Bank's 1993 report on The East Asian Miracle prompted a wave of comparative research aimed at extracing practical lessons for African countries from the development achievements of large parts of Asia in the late twentieth century. Increasingly, however, researchers questioned the relevance of Asian experience to the African predicament, pointing to systematic contrasts between the tw...