Early Child Education: Making Programs Work for Brazil's Most Important Generation (World Bank Study) - Softcover

Evans, David; Kosec, Katrina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821389319 ISBN 13: 9780821389317

Publisher: World Bank Publications, 2012

Synopsis

In the past fifteen years, Brazil has made great strides in increasing its population's access to early child education, with both preschool and creche enrollment increasing by over fifty percent. Education programs for young children have consistently been shown to have long-term positive effects on life outcomes of participants. In Brazil, these programs have demonstrated positive impacts on, for example, income, length of schooling, and test scores. However, the quality of pre-schools and creches is essential in achieving these improvements, and even in capital cities, very few centers are rated as high-quality centers. Representation of the poorest and most vulnerable children among those attending pre-school and creche still lags considerably behind that of more privileged children, although poorer children stand to gain the most from early child education programs.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821389319
• ISBN 13: 9780821389317
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 117