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W. Steven Barnett; Kwanghee Jung – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2024
We investigated the extent to which practices considered developmentally appropriate and inappropriate varied by preschool program auspice (private, public school, and Head Start). Survey data from a 2010 national sample of 2,664 teachers of 4-year-olds provided teacher reports on the frequency of seven practices (e.g., offering children choices…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Preschool Education, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Teachers
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Yifang Wang; Yong Jiang; Yu Zhou; Xinxin Liu – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of the Puhui early education services (PEES) policy in China from the triangulated perspectives of stakeholders using a developed and validated scale. First, applying a stratified cluster sampling method, the Puhui Early Education Services Policy Effectiveness Scale (PE)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Early Childhood Education, Public Education
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González-Motos, Sheila; Saurí Saula, Enric – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
Access to early child education services has been proven to be an efficient tool in fighting educational inequalities. However, while wealthier families are likely to use childcare services, disadvantaged children tend to be left out. Research has explained this effect, known as Mathew Effect, and has studied both the constraints in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschools, Preschool Education, Educational Policy
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Birnbaum, Matthew; Weiler, Spencer C.; Westbrook, Philip – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2021
The threat of a pandemic places P-20 educational leaders in the difficult position of having to make decisions with incomplete information that affect the welfare of students, employees, and the community. Due to extraneous factors, pandemics are almost impossible to plan for in detail. In an effort to illustrate the unique position P-20…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Pandemics
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McNair, Lynn J.; Blaisdell, Caralyn; Davis, John M.; Addison, Luke J. – Global Education Review, 2022
This paper reports on findings from a small pilot study undertaken with early years practitioners in Scotland. The Scottish Government is currently implementing its key election promise of almost doubling the entitlement to publicly funded early learning and childcare (ELC) for all three and four-year old and eligible two-year old children. A key…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Child Care
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Camovic, Dženeta; Becirovic-Karabegovic, Jasmina – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This paper analyzes the key determinants of the quality of preschool education in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Based on the analysis of recent data, the paper indicates the status and development trends in this regard in the last decade. Although preschool education in Bosnia and Herzegovina has a long tradition, it is facing a number of challenges,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Educational Quality, Public Policy
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Bivens, Briana M. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2023
In this article, I position federal policy as a shaper of familial life capable of capacitating new forms of relationality. I review three key child and family provisions in the "Build Back Better" social policy package proposed by the Biden administration: the expanded child tax credit, universal pre-K, and the expansion of federal…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Public Policy, Tax Credits, Access to Education
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Lyndon, Sandra – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
Early years practitioners are central to UK government policy in alleviating poverty in early childhood. The significant level and rise in child poverty rates suggest that their role is becoming increasingly important in supporting families on low incomes. Paradoxically, cuts to children's services under austerity policies and the low pay and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Public Policy, Poverty
Cisneros, Brooke; Prieto, Destiney; Jennings-Shaffer, Jennifer; Perez, Amanda – ZERO TO THREE, 2021
Decisions being made on Capitol Hill and in state capitals may seem remote from the experiences of early childhood professionals, but policymakers have a big impact on babies and families. Early childhood professionals and parents bring key expertise and passion to policy advocacy and have a powerful role to play. This article identifies the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Child Care, Young Children
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Pramling Samuelsson, Ingrid; Wagner, Judith T.; Eriksen Ødegaard, Elin – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2020
The novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has moved rapidly across the world in 2020. This article reports on the recent consequences of the pandemic for early childhood education in Sweden, Norway, and the United States. The authors illustrate the effects of the pandemic on preschools in their countries, against a backdrop of frequent…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Preschools, Foreign Countries
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Saltmarsh, Sue; Lee, I-Fang – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2021
Play is a central discourse in policy and practice pertaining to young children's learning, development and well-being in many countries around the world. Dominant ways of understanding and advocating for play often construct universalising notions of children and childhood, overlooking that play is always-already culturally situated and…
Descriptors: Play, Children, Child Development, Psychological Patterns
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Hong, Xiumin; Zhang, Mingzhu; Liu, Qianqian; Zhong, Binglin; Li, Handong – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: The implementation of the universal two-child policy in China will first affect changes in the country's population, before influencing the scale of development of preschool education to meet the corresponding demand for educational resources. Using data from China's sixth census as the base-period data, this study applied the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Preschool Education, Expenditures
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Sattin-Bajaj, Carolyn; Jennings, Jennifer L. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2022
In the last decade, the number of public school students in the United States experiencing homelessness has more than doubled. Research shows that school enrollment processes are particularly onerous for families experiencing homelessness; yet, school choice and enrollment policies are rarely designed with the type of flexibility needed to be…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Emergency Shelters, School Choice, Urban Areas
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Hong, Xiumin; Liu, Qianqian; Zhang, Mingzhu; Li, Hui – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Driven by the universal two-child policy, the childcare services in China have stepped into a new era after 3-decade of neglect. This national study investigated the accessibility, quality, and administration of childcare services for children under age 3, by establishing a triangulation of survey, interview, and classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Child Care, Preschool Children
Kashen, Julie; Cai, Julie; Brown, Hayley; Fremstad, Shawn – Century Foundation, 2022
Comprehensive child care and early learning policy benefits everybody. From the benefits to the American economy and businesses, to the ways it improves healthy child development and educational outcomes, to the prospects for greater gender, racial, and economic equity, everyone in the United States has something to gain from a significant…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Federal Legislation
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