Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack … benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study … parents and improve emergent literacy skills in children. The intervention was a modified dialogic reading training program …

. It compares the outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time …

83- month-old children ages 24 to 83 months (n = 510) in rural Kenya. The first treatment group received storybooks …Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack … benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study …

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

early childhood services to young children living in poverty and just above poverty. Initial results showed that Invest … Early children were better prepared for kindergarten than their low-income counterparts and the proficiency gap between … Invest Early and high-income children had decreased significantly. Integrating and sustaining such a complicated network of …