Summary The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a historic opportunity to
implement interventions, at scale, to promote early childhood development. Although the …

A growing body of research in the United States and Western Europe documents significant
effects of the physical environment (toxins, pollutants, noise, crowding, chaos, and housing …

This report is the second in a Series on early child development in low-income and middle-
income countries and assesses the effectiveness of early child development interventions …

High levels of maternal employment in the United States and throughout the world have led
to substantive changes in the rearing of infants and young children (Waldfogel, 2002) …

The purpose of the study was to examine the efficacy of a 4-week dialogic reading
intervention with rural Bangladeshi preschoolers with the intention of increasing their …

This report considers international research on the impact of Early Childhood Education and
Care (ECEC) provision upon children's development, using studies reported from a wide …

Measurement of quality in early childhood education (ECE) helps shape policy and practice,
yet few studies have examined the adaptation and resulting psychometric properties of ECE …

In September 2016, the member states of the United Nations completed the process of
adopting and defining indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; United …

This study evaluated the relative effectiveness of home‐based, community‐based, and state‐
run early childhood programs across Cambodia. A total of 880 five‐year‐olds (55% girls) …

Evidence was collected regarding changes over 3 years in the quality of a preprimary
program in rural Bangladesh and differences in school achievement of children who did and …