The continuous deterioration of the quality of education in the Philippines has prompted the DepEd to push for the … implementation of the K to 12 program, which entails the institutionalization of kindergarten and the addition of two more years of … high school in the basic education cycle. The proposal has spurred a heated debate on whether it could lead to improvements …

Better Education Results - Early Childhood Development (SABER-ECD) collects, analyzes, and disseminates comprehensive …

Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) implementation: policy/legislation and governance; human resources; curriculum … Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) endorsed a National Early Childhood Education Policy Statement …, targeting age's three to five, which states its commitment to develop a quality Early Childhood Education (ECE) sector. This …

Group; it combines the World Bank Group's Systems Approach for Better Education Results SABER-ECD framework, which includes … priority components for quality Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) implementation: policy, legislation, and governance … partnerships. In 2008, the Ministry of Education (MOE) drafted the Kiribati Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy, which …

or she could be with full health and complete education. High rates of childhood stunting, low preschool coverage and low … invest in high quality early childhood development (ECD) and early childhood education and care (ECEC). Given Tajikistan … improving child health, education access and quality, and cognitive and psychosocial development …

supplementation, parenting education, and preschool education. Global evidence points to specific interventions in each area that have …

caregiver, there is scope for policy aimed at increasing access and affordability of childcare and early education: Around 24 … percent of parents of children ages 0 to 5 currently not attending kindergarten report that the reason of no attendance is …: There are significant differences in enrollment to kindergarten and nursery between the poorest and the richest households …

Skill formation and human capital accumulation are a lifetime process, and quality early childhood education and … increase required compared to the overall education budget is modest. A strong monitoring and evaluation (M and E) system with …

application process. Using data from the Kindergarten cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, our instrumental variables … estimates suggest that children receiving subsidized care in the year before kindergarten score lower on tests of cognitive … ability and reveal more behavior problems throughout kindergarten. However, these negative effects largely disappear by the …