This report considers the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) curriculum
throughout Europe. It explores the official curriculum, specified by national or regional …

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 …

Since the early 1990's early childhood education (ECE) in England has changed
dramatically. Once seen as simply a preparation for school, what happens to young children …

Educational and occupational aspirations have become an important reference point in
policy debates about educational inequality. Low aspirations are presented as a major …

Must Inclusion be Special? examines the discord between special and inclusive education
and why this discord can only be resolved when wider inequalities within mainstream …

For many decades there has been research on the relationship between parents'
socioeconomic status (SES) and their children's cognitive skills. Meta-analyses for school …

This study explores how various measures of home learning environment (HLE) collected at
different ages are related to each other and explores associations when the effects of …

The study identified a sub-group of high attaining (bright) disadvantaged students at the end
primary schooling at age 11 and followed their progress across secondary education with a …

Im Zentrum des vorliegenden Beitrags steht die Frage, wie sich die Kompetenzen von
Schülerinnen und Schülern unterschiedlicher sozialer Herkunft während der Grundschule …

Expanding research on individual differences in students' self-beliefs about ability, effort and
difficulty, we investigated the variability and interrelatedness of situation-specific learning …