Product Description: This book is a valuable source of information on the long-term effects of early intervention programs on the education of children living in economically disadvantaged areas and in other contexts. Early intervention programs such as Head Start enjoy popular and legislative support, but until now, policymakers and practitioners have lacked hard data on the long-term consequences of such locally and federally mandated efforts...read more

Product Description: In Early Childhood Programs for a New Century, leading authorities in early childhood education synthesize the research base and state of practice of early childhood learning and answer such questions as: -What programs are most effective, and who benefits most from them? -What are the key components of effective programs and services? -What are the implications of the knowledge base for program development, modification, and expansion? -How can the best or most promising practices be disseminated and widely used, especially for children at risk? Part I of this volume covers the child's first five years, including Head Start, child care, and model programs; Part II covers kindergarten and early school-age years, including school readiness, grade retention, and extended interventions; Part III examines broader implications of the knowledge base for program development and policy formulation...read more

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Product Description: Hardbound. This volume is the seventh in an annual series of works on educational productivity centered on how more can be accomplished in education without consuming additional human, economic, and social resources. In Evaluation Research for Educational Productivity a key question addressed by the authors is: How do current developments in evaluation research enhance our capacity to come to conclusions useful to policy makers and program professionals? Reynolds and Walberg have brought together exemplary contributions from leading scholars who describe their evaluation approaches in education and reflect on their research methods and lessons learned from what went right and wrong in real world efforts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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