Ready for School? Integrating Learning and Child Development Under the Sustainable Development Goals

Session Type: WERA Symposium

Abstract

The draft Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), slated to replace the Millennium Development goals in 2015, are both broad and ambitious, calling for access to “quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education” so that all children are “ready” for primary education. But what does it mean to be ready for school? How best can we ensure schools are ready for children? The panel will reflect on results from global research on child development and school readiness, as well as emerging results from assessment and intervention experiences. Offering a worldwide perspective, panelists will share evidence from ongoing intervention efforts, results from field trials of new child-level instruments, and reflections on the development of scalable models for early childhood care and development.

Sub Unit

• World Education Research Association

Chair

• Maureen Black, RTI International

Papers

• School Readiness and Child Development: A Policy Review - Maureen Black, RTI International

• Prospects for Scalable Preprimary Education: A Comparative Analysis of Preschool in Honduras, Jordan, and Mozambique - Katherine Anne Merseth, RTI International

• Results of the Monitoring Early Learning Quality Outcomes Pilot Efforts in Kenya and Tanzania - Abbie Raikes

• Development of a Scalable Model for Early Childhood Development: Process and Reflections - Evangeline N. Nderu, RTI International; Catherine Henny

Discussant

• Robin Horn, Children's Investment Fund Foundation