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2007 EFA Global Monitoring Report: Strong foundations: Early childhood care and education An assessment of the progress made by countries and national organizations toward meeting the goals of equitable provision of learning opportunities to all citizens from infancy to adulthood, expressed at the Jomtien World Conference on Education for All, based on cross-national education statistics, household surveys, consultations, literature reviews and commissioned papers, with a focus on national strategies for creating programs and improving services devoted to early childhood care and education |
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2007 EFA Global Monitoring Report: Strong foundations: Early childhood care and education [Summary] A summary of an assessment of the progress made by countries and national organizations toward meeting the goals of equitable provision of learning opportunities to all citizens from infancy to adulthood, expressed at the Jomtien World Conference on Education for All, based on cross-national education statistics, household surveys, consultations, literature reviews and commissioned papers, with a focus on national strategies for creating programs and improving services devoted to early childhood care and education |
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Accelerometer measured level of physical activity indoors and outdoors during preschool time in Sweden and the United States A comparison of young children's physical activity and sedentary behavior during indoor and outdoor time for both boys and girls in Swedish and United States settings, based on data from 50 children with an average age of 52 months, at two sites in Malmo, Sweden and two sites in Raleigh, North Carolina |
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Access, public investment, and equity in ECCE: The nexus in nine high-population countries A comparison of early childhood education participation rates and access in countries participating in the E-9 Initiative (Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan) |
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Adapting Western pedagogies for Chinese literacy instruction: Case studies of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Singapore preschools A comparison of the amounts of both Eastern and Western cultural teaching practices in Chinese-language literacy instruction at 18 preschools in China, Hong Kong, and Singapore, all serving middle-class families |
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Added value of dialogic parent-child book readings: A meta-analysis An analysis of data from multiple studies on of the effects of dialogic parent-child book reading on the vocabulary skills of young children |
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Adieu Rabenmutter: The effect of culture on fertility, female labour supply, the gender wage gap and childcare A presentation and discussion of a cross-national model of the relationships among fertility, female labor force participation, child care provision, and the gender wage gap |
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The adult worker model family, gender equality and care: The search for new policy principles and the possibilities and problems of a capabilities approach A discussion of principles involved in the theoretical shift towards the adult worker model, involving assumptions of increased individualization and self-sufficiency, especially with regards to women |
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Affordability funding models for early childhood services A presentation of a model of available approaches for governments to use to ensure affordable early childhood services using international data from affordability models used by countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
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Affordable quality: New approaches to childcare An overview of child care policy and provision in the United Kingdom, with a discussion of lessons for the United Kingdom from child care policy reform in the Netherlands |
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American Public Health Association/American Academy of Pediatrics Injury Prevention Standards A discussion of injury prevention standards for child care centers in the United States and Europe, and an overview of the content of and adherence to the 1992 standards published by the American Public Health Association/American Academy of Pediatrics (APHA/AAP). |
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Appendix I: Literature review: Literature review of the participation of disadvantaged children and families in ECEC services in Europe A review of research in European Union member states on barriers to and promising practices regarding disadvantaged children's and families' access to early childhood education and care (ECEC) and on the relationship of ECEC participation to children's cognitive and socioemotional outcomes |
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The application of the preschool Child Behavior Checklist and the Caregiver-Teacher Report Form to mainland Chinese children: Syndrome structure, gender differences, country effects, and inter-informant agreement A test of the cross-cultural factorial validity of the Child Behavior Checklist and the Caregiver-Teacher Report Form, the applicability of the taxonomy of preschool psychopathology they embody to Mainland Chinese preschoolers, an examination of country effects, gender differences, and cross-informant agreement between teachers and parents, based on data from 876 Chinese preschoolers and the original United States sample upon which the instruments were normed |
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Approaches to assessing the language and literacy skills of young dual language learners: A review of the research A summary of a review of the procedures used to assess the language and literacy development of young dual language learners, based on 80 studies from Canada and the United States |
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Are the indicators for the Language and Reasoning Subscale of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised psychometrically appropriate for Caribbean classrooms? A test of the appropriateness of the indicators used in the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R) Language and Reasoning Subscale in a sample of 334 early childhood classrooms in Jamaica and Grenada |
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Assessing the optimal length of parental leave for child and parental well-being: How can research inform policy? A review of literature on concerns associated with parental leave, encompassing mothers' labor market outcomes, childbirth and maternal recovery, parent-infant bonding, children’s cognitive development, breastfeeding, and gender equity objectives |
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Assessing quality day care: The child care facility schedule A description and validity study of the Child Care Facility Schedule, a research instrument tested in Greece, Nigeria and the Philippines, for observer measuring and personnel self-evaluation of child care center quality |
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Assessing the quality of early years learning environments A study on the design and validation of instruments used to measure aspects of high quality in early child learning environments in Northern Irish primary schools and Danish kindergartens |
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Assessment of benefits and costs of out of school care A summary of a review of evidence from research conducted in Australia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States on the social benefits and economic costs of out-of-school time child care programs |
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Assessment of the benefits and costs of out of school care A review of evidence from research conducted in Australia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States on the social benefits and economic costs of out-of-school time child care programs |
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Assessment tools for language and literacy development of young dual language learners (DLLs) A summary of a review of the reliability and validity of measures used to assess the language and literacy development of young dual language learners, based on 7 large-scale government studies and 30 research studies from Canada and the United States |
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The Atlantic Philanthropies' Disadvantaged Children and Youth program in Ireland and Northern Ireland: Overview of program evaluation findings: Final report An evaluation of Disadvantaged Children and Youth, a program in Ireland and Northern Ireland to improve the lives of disadvantaged children by improving service delivery through evidence-based services and prevention and early intervention strategies, based on semistructured interviews with key informants and on a research and policy review |
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The Atlantic Philanthropies' Disadvantaged Children and Youth program in Ireland and Northern Ireland: Overview of program evaluation findings: Final report [Executive summary] A summary of an evaluation of Disadvantaged Children and Youth, a program in Ireland and Northern Ireland to improve the lives of disadvantaged children by improving service delivery through evidence-based services and prevention and early intervention strategies, based on semistructured interviews with key informants and on a research and policy review |
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Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder across cultures: Development and disability in contexts A description of the research presented in the special issue of Early Child Development and Care focusing on the views of early childhood educators from several developed countries on the subject of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) |
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Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder across cultures: Development and disability in contexts [Special issue] A special issue of the journal Early Child Development and Care, focusing on the views of early childhood educators from several developed countries on the subject of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) |
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