HLTC23H3 : Anderson Reading-Effectiveness of ECD programs
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Andersen et al- effectiveness of early childhood development programs. physical health, cognition, language and social and emotional development underpin school readiness. ecd programs are a community resource that promotes wellbeing of young children. example of such a program: head start- closes the gap in readiness to learn bw poor children and rich kids. gap bw groups. Look at assessment of effectiveness of these programs in increasing rediness and reducing. Critical dimensions of child development are self regulation, establishment of early relationships, knowledge acuqisiton, skill building. in the united states, where the rate of child poverty is substantially higher than that of most other major western industrialized nations,11 children are almost twice as likely as any other age group to live in poverty. low family income and community poverty lead to racial and ethnic achievement gaps.
