The continuous deterioration of the quality of education in the Philippines has prompted the DepEd to push for the … implementation of the K to 12 program, which entails the institutionalization of kindergarten and the addition of two more years of … high school in the basic education cycle. The proposal has spurred a heated debate on whether it could lead to improvements …

estimates suggest that children receiving subsidized care in the year before kindergarten score lower on tests of cognitive … application process. Using data from the Kindergarten cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, our instrumental variables … ability and reveal more behavior problems throughout kindergarten. However, these negative effects largely disappear by the …

Finance Minister’s Pranab Mukherjee’s “inclusive†Budget 2010-11 does not include children, who are over 42 per … cent of the population. Out of every rupee spent in the budget, he has allotted only 4.63 paise to children. …

.21 less years of education as an adult. In the short-term, the effects are stronger than in the long run. Further, children … conflict, Leon exploit the variation in war location and birth cohorts of children to identify the effect of the civil war on …

Early childhood education is a widely accepted term to describe a program aimed at providing all round development for … children between ages of 2 and 6 years. It paves the way for effective learning. The child is prepared in all respects to …

The bill tells us about the child's right to free and compulsory education which is of equitable quality. The … reposibility of the state, reponsibility of the schools to give education, entry age, reponsibility of parents in giving education … to children. …

special reference to children living in diverse poverty situations. …

While the decline in infrastructure, functionality, quality and attitudes affect all children, given the prevailing … social inequalities and hierarchies, these factors affect poor children and among them girls much more that they affect the … specific policy / programme interventions to address gender issues in primary education. They have made an obvious difference …