Study
The power and promise of early learning
What early learning does for later outcomes, and what can be measured at age five.
Reviewed the evidence on early childhood cognitive and social-emotional development and the case for measuring it directly. It set up the argument for the International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study.
Part of IELS: Early Learning
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- 2018The power and promise of early learningOECD Education Working Papers DOIWorking paper