music technology that offers young children benefits from the implementation of an appropriately complete music technology … such music courses encourage creativity and foster a sense of cultural understanding and appreciation amongst children in … that music technology curriculum is not only valuable, but essential to the early education program for young children. …

rolled out nationwide and provides additional resources for materials and new staff, did not benefit children's development …, improved the quality of teaching and raised children's cognition, language and school readiness …

Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … same time: empowering mothers through tools that also advance their children's development. A program operated by AVSI, an … Italian NGO, in a poor neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, targets parents of children from birth to age 5. It provides family …

only for children around the median of the attendance rate baseline distribution (between deciles 4 and 6). The … intervention was ineffective for children with very high or very low pre-treatment absenteeism levels. Our results, although … encouraging, emphasize the limits of these types of interventions, especially for children in families where barriers to reduce …

-year-olds. However, more than a third of children enrolled in preschool programs have insufficient attendance, with absenteeism higher in … schools in lower socioeconomic areas and among younger preschool children. This paper presents the results of a behavioral … impact of nudging parents on attendance and learning for school-age children; this is the first experiment looking at both …

Tajikistan has the highest birth rate, of 29 births per 1,000, in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region and children … building its human capital and empowering its workforce of the future. Globally, investing in children to build human capital … that much more can be done to support children in achieving their potential. This report is intended to support policy …