The report highlights several areas where new findings from neuroscience are becoming misinterpreted by education, including brain - related ideas regarding
early educational investment, adolescent brain development and learning disorders such as dyslexia and ADHD.
Not exact matches
But he says the state, which has more than 50 post-secondary
educational institutions, decided to use
early investments as a platform for more.
«All evidence shows that
investment in the
early years of a child's life make a huge difference to
educational attainment.
Investing
early is the wisest
investment that we can make to improve
educational outcomes for our children.»
Whilst it is
early days, the trend is being encouraged by both local authorities and the EFA, perhaps recognising the need locally and nationally to develop capacity to deliver new build works and that schools are best placed to make decisions about where to focus
investment to secure the right
educational outcomes.
As
educational policy makers seek strategies to improve the teacher workforce, the
early career period represents a unique opportunity to identify struggling teachers, examine the likelihood of future improvement, and make strategic pretenure
investments in development or dismissals.
Plastic Logic had a major
investment partner
earlier on in the year from a Russian company looking to make a play at the
educational market.
Experiences in the first 1000 days of life have a crucial influence on child development and health.1 Appropriate
early child development (including physical, social and emotional, language and cognitive domains) has consistently been shown to be associated with good health and
educational outcomes in childhood and consequent health and employment outcomes in adulthood.2 — 4 Adopting a life course approach, including
early intervention, is essential, 5 and
investment is therefore needed in effective prenatal and postnatal services to optimise child health, well - being and developmental resilience.6
An analysis released today by the White House Council of Economic Advisers describes the economic returns to
investments in
early childhood education, including increased parental earnings and employment in the short - term, reduced need for remedial education and later public school expenditures, as well as long - term outcomes such as increased
educational attainment, increased earnings, improved health, and decreased involvement with the criminal justice system.
Six specific strategies are identified in Elevate Maines plan:
Investments that will be implemented statewide: Campaign to raise public awareness: Elevate Maine will increase public knowledge about the important relationship between high quality
early learning and sustained
educational and lifelong success.
Invest in them; invest in them
early; invest in them well; invest in evidenced based practice, develop evidence based policies and we will all reap the economic, social,
educational and moral return on this
investment well beyond the life time of the new parliamentary period.