Final Blog Assignment

Part 1 Consequences of learning about the international early childhood field for your professional and personal development? "Research shows that there are large gains to be had from investing in early childhood development.  For example, estimates place the gains from the elimination of malnutrition at 1 to 2 percentage points of gross domestic product (GDP) annually (World Bank, 2006)".  "Analysis of results from OECD’s 2009 Program of International Student Assessment (PISA) reveals that school systems that have a 10 percentage-point advantage in the proportion of students who have attended pre-primary school score an average of 12 points higher in the PISA reading assessment (OECD and Statistics Canada, 2011)".  "A simulation model of the potential long-term economic effects of increasing preschool enrollment to 25 percent or 50 percent in every low-income and middle-income country showed a benefit-to-cost ratio ranging from 6.4 to 17.6, depending on...