UID:
almafu_9958072618502883
Format:
xiv, 306 pages :
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illustrations ;
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23 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-00092-2
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9786611000929
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0-8213-7087-1
Series Statement:
World Bank e-Library.
Content:
This book summarizes the current neuroscience on early child development and major longitudinal studies, the rationale and urgency for greater investment, and countries' innovative funding strategies.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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A productive investment : early child development / Rob Grunewald and Arthur Rolnick -- Early child development is a business imperative / Charlie Coffey -- Experience-based brain development : scientific underpinnings of the importance of early child development in a global world / J. Fraser Mustard -- Outcomes of the High/Scope Preschool Study and Michigan School Readiness Program / Lawrence J. Schweinhart -- The Abecedarian experience / Joseph Sparling, Craig T. Ramey, and Sharon L. Ramey -- Colombia : challenges in country-level monitoring / Beatriz Londoño Soto and Tatiana Romero Rey -- Step by step : a multicountry perspective on implementing and monitoring ECD programs / Sarah Klaus -- Canada : longitudinal monitoring of ECD outcomes / Jane Bertrand -- The early development instrument : a tool for monitoring children's development and readiness for school / Magdalena Janus -- Jamaica : recent initiatives in early childhood policy / Omar Davies and Rose Davies -- Brazil's millennium fund for early childhood / Osmar Terra and Alessandra Schneider -- Dominican Republic : competitive fund for educational innovations / Clara Baez and Guadalupe Váldez -- Indonesia : public financing of block grants for privately delivered services / Nina Sardjunani, Ace Suryadi, and Erika Dunkelberg -- Measuring child development to leverage ECD policy and investment / J. Fraser Mustard and Mary Eming Young.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-7086-3
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
URL:
http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-0-8213-7086-5
