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Effectiveness of Early Educational Intervention
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Early educational intervention has been proposed to partially offset the impacts of poverty and inadequate learning environments on child development and school success. A broad range of early educational interventions are found to produce meaningful, lasting effects on cognitive, social, and schooling outcomes. However, all interventions are not equally effective. Two major U.S. programs perform relatively poorly. Research provides some guidance regarding the features of highly effective programs, but much remains to be learned. New experimental studies of key program features would have a high payoff.
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- Authors
- Barnett, W. S.
- Affiliations
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
- Corresponding author
- Barnett, W. S.
- ORCID
- Barnett, W. S.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2011-08-19
- Volume
- 333
- Issue
- 6045
- Pages
- 975-978
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2126455292
- Cited by
- 636
- References
- 35
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- FWCI
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- Science (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
- Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
- Social Sciences › Development › Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Keywords
- early educational intervention, program effectiveness, child development, school success, poverty, learning environment, cognitive outcomes, social outcomes, program characteristics, early childhood education
- MeSH terms
- Child Development, Child, Preschool, Cognition, Educational Measurement, Humans, Infant, Intelligence, Social Behavior, United States, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Program Evaluation, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Early Intervention, Educational
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