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Download full textPerry, Bob; Hampshire, Ann; Gervaxoni, Ann; O'Neill, Will – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
"Let's Count" is a preschool mathematics intervention implemented by The Smith Family from 2012 to the present in "disdvantaged" communities across Australia. It is based on current mathematics and early childhood education research and aligns with the Early Years Learning Framework. Let's Count has been shown to be effective…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Preschool Curriculum, Intervention, Disadvantaged Environment
Direct linkCenter on the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2013
This brief summarizes the working paper, "The Science of Neglect: The Persistent Absence of Responsive Care Disrupts the Developing Brain," and explains why neglect, or the absence of responsive, supportive care, can affect the formation of the developing brain, impairing later learning, behavior, and health. The brief also includes…
Descriptors: Child Neglect, Child Development, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Development
Duffy, Helen; Brown, Jim; O'Day, Jennifer – California Collaborative on District Reform, 2009
The Fresno-Long Beach Learning Partnership is a collaboration that aims to improve student outcomes, accelerate achievement for all students, and close achievement gaps by capitalizing on shared systemic capacity-building across two high-need districts. The Partnership is a joint effort of the third- and fourth-largest districts in California to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Superintendents, Leadership, Partnerships in Education
Doll, Russell C. – Education for the Disadvantaged Child, 1974
Argues that the cumulative effect of early non-school related influences indicates that concentrating too heavily on school intervention may perpetuate the schools' ineffectiveness and reduce the possibility that school intervention will effect the child's academic achievement or development of skills needed to break the poverty cycle. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Environment, Early Childhood Education, Environmental Influences
Depatie, Raymond; And Others – 1974
Federal census district data for 1974 are used to produce a global index showing the relative degree to which each of the census districts of the island of Montreal is disadvantaged. The internal dynamics and characteristics peculiar to the different local communities within are not specified and necessitate additional data sources such as health,…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Census Figures, Disadvantaged Environment, Economically Disadvantaged
Farrar, Elizabeth B. – 1986
In Belle Glade, Florida, a slum populated by Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, migrant farmworkers, and Haitians, where the incidence of most major health risks was far greater than anywhere else in the state, a program was planned and partially implemented which aimed to provide health services to at-risk, disadvantaged teenage mothers and their…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Community Action, Community Health Services, Community Problems
