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The Government of Uzbekistan has committed to reforming preschool education, prioritising upskilling teachers to use international best practice.
Recent evidence indicates that a child’s home learning environment is the strongest predictor of success in later reading abilities and that for children not receiving structured language and reading support at home.
Yasmin Harman-Smith BA, BHlthSc(Hons), MTeach(Primary), PhD Head, Early Years Systems Evidence Yasmin.harman-smith@thekids.org.au Head, Early Years
A collaboration between The Kids Research Institute Australia and Joondalup Health Campus is poised to be a game-changer for early childhood development.
A Quinns Rocks family who became the 1000th family to sign up for the ORIGINS Project is excited to be contributing to such ground-breaking research.
The Early Human Capability Index is a holistic measure intended to capture early child development across diverse cultures and contexts.
Adolescents are heavily exposed to unhealthy outdoor food advertisements near schools, however, the marketing power of these advertisements among adolescents has not yet been explored. This study aimed to investigate the teen-directed marketing features present and quantify the overall marketing power of outdoor food advertisements located near schools to explore any differences by content (ie, alcohol, discretionary, core and miscellaneous foods) school type (ie, primary, secondary, K-12) and area-level socio-economic status (SES; ie, low vs high).
Although children's later experiences can still have an effect, developments in early childhood have long-lasting effects on health, behaviour and learning...
This chapter assesses what global evidence tells us about the importance of early childhood education and development...
This chapter describes the development of young children in a sample of poor rural communities across Indonesia.