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Inclusive Education
EXTRACT This research focused on one of the most vulnerable groups in Australia’s vocational education and training (VET) system: young early school leavers.1 While a quarter of those undert... Read more
EXTRACT of a review of Educational Opportunity for All: Overcoming Inequality throughout the Life Course by Dirk Van Damme Education plays a dual role when it comes to social inequality and... Read more
ABSTRACT Many cognitive self-regulation (CSR) measures are related to the academic achievement of prekindergarten children and are thus of potential interest for school readiness screening a... Read more
ABSTRACT All schools need to ground Science, Technology, Education and Mathematics (STEM) teaching in methods that actively respond to the needs of children and their communities. But this i... Read more
ABSTRACT Despite calls to expand early childhood education (ECE) in the United States, questions remain regarding its medium- and long-term impacts on educational outcomes. We use meta-analy... Read more
ABSTRACT Using data from a diverse sample of low-income families who participated in the Early Head Start Research Evaluation Project (n = 73), we explored the association between mothers... Read more
EXTRACT HIPPY Bowenfels celebrated their Graduation for the Class of 2017 on Wednesday, November 22. Program coordinator Ashlea Werner said the evening was a celebration of the HIPPY familie... Read more
ABSTRACT Vocational education is seen as beneficial for the labor market allocation of young people. However, recent studies point to disadvantages later in the life course, where the specif... Read more
ABSTRACT Mothers play a key role in scaffolding children’s writing using traditional tools, such as paper and pencil. However, little is known about how mothers scaffold young children’s wri... Read more
ABSTRACT Early childhood education represents a pivotal opportunity to improve the developmental trajectories of young children, and evidence-based practices (EBPs) are scientifically proven... Read more
ABSTRACT This study examined whether classroom quality is related to preschoolers’ social-emotional functioning (social competence and behavior problems) and explored whether urbanicity (var... Read more
