[HTML][HTML] Exploring the role of neuroplasticity in development, aging, and neurodegeneration

P Marzola, T Melzer, E Pavesi, J Gil-Mohapel… - Brain sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Neuroplasticity refers to the ability of the brain to reorganize and modify its neural
connections in response to environmental stimuli, experience, learning, injury, and disease …

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 …

A meta-analytic review of preschool social and emotional learning interventions

D Murano, JE Sawyer… - Review of Educational …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This meta-analysis summarized the effects of universal and targeted social and emotional
learning (SEL) interventions in 48 studies on the development of social and emotional skills …

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 …

Is kindergarten the new first grade?

D Bassok, S Latham, A Rorem - AERA open, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent accounts suggest that accountability pressures have trickled down into the early
elementary grades and that kindergarten today is characterized by a heightened focus on …

Early childhood education: Health, equity, and economics

RA Hahn, WS Barnett - Annual review of public health, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Many low-income and minority children in the United States and globally are at risk of poor
educational trajectories and, consequently, diminished life courses, because their …

[HTML][HTML] Improving teacher-child interactions: A randomized controlled trial of Making the Most of Classroom Interactions and My Teaching Partner professional …

DM Early, KL Maxwell, BD Ponder, Y Pan - Early childhood research …, 2017 - Elsevier
The effectiveness of two professional development interventions, each designed to
strengthen teacher-child interactions in preschool classrooms, was tested using a teacher …

A toolkit for measuring early childhood development in low and middle-income countries

LCH Fernald, E Prado, P Kariger, A Raikes - 2017 - repositorio.minedu.gob.pe
The Toolkit provides a practical,“how-to” guide for selection and adaptation of child
development measurements for use in low-and middle-income countries. Users can follow …

Does professional development reduce the influence of teacher stress on teacher–child interactions in pre-kindergarten classrooms?

LE Sandilos, P Goble, SE Rimm-Kaufman… - Early Childhood …, 2018 - Elsevier
The present study examines the extent to which participation in a 14-week professional
development course designed to improve teacher–child interactions in the classroom …

A review of research on the effects of early childhood Education and Care (ECEC) upon child development. CARE project; Curriculum Quality Analysis and Impact …

EC Melhuish, K Ereky-Stevens, K Petrogiannis… - 2015 - eprints.bbk.ac.uk
This report considers the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) curriculum
throughout Europe. It explores the official curriculum, specified by national or regional …