Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development

PR Britto, SJ Lye, K Proulx, AK Yousafzai, SG Matthews… - The lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Summary The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a historic opportunity to
implement interventions, at scale, to promote early childhood development. Although the …

Measuring early care and education quality

M Burchinal - Child Development Perspectives, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
High‐quality early care and education (ECE) programs are thought to increase opportunities
for all children to succeed in school, but recent findings call into question whether these …

Teacher and teaching effects on students' attitudes and behaviors

D Blazar, MA Kraft - Educational evaluation and policy …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Research has focused predominantly on how teachers affect students' achievement on
standardized tests despite evidence that a broad range of attitudes and behaviors are …

RULER: A theory-driven, systemic approach to social, emotional, and academic learning

MA Brackett, CS Bailey, JD Hoffmann… - Educational …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process of integrating cognition, emotion, and
behavior in our lives. In school settings, it involves systemic practices to incorporate SEL into …

Teacher–child relationships, classroom climate, and children's social-emotional and academic development.

CL Rucinski, JL Brown, JT Downer - Journal of educational …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous research has demonstrated that teacher–child relationship quality and classroom
emotional climate are each related to children's social-emotional and academic …

Mental health interventions in schools in high-income countries

M Fazel, K Hoagwood, S Stephan, T Ford - The Lancet Psychiatry, 2014 - thelancet.com
Mental health services embedded within school systems can create a continuum of
integrative care that improves both mental health and educational attainment for children. To …

Do children benefit from universal early childhood education and care? A meta-analysis of evidence from natural experiments

T Van Huizen, J Plantenga - Economics of Education Review, 2018 - Elsevier
This study examines the effects of universal Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) on
child development and children's later life outcomes. Using meta-analytical techniques, we …

Investing in our future: The evidence base on preschool education.

H Yoshikawa, C Weiland, J Brooks-Gunn… - Society for Research in …, 2013 - ERIC
The expansion of publicly-funded preschool education is currently the focus of a prominent
debate. At present, 42% of 4-year-olds attend publicly funded preschool (28% attend public …

The care burden during COVID-19: A national database of child care closures in the United States

EK Lee, Z Parolin - Socius, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Access to child care centers reduces the care burden of parents, promotes child
development, and creates employment opportunities. During the coronavirus disease 2019 …

Investing in early childhood development in preschool and at home

G Duncan, A Kalil, M Mogstad, M Rege - Handbook of the Economics of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The foundations for successful child development are established in early childhood. Two
main policy approaches for strengthening these foundations have been subsidized …