Measuring and forecasting progress in education: what about early childhood?

ABSTRACT: A recent Nature article modelled within-country inequalities in primary, secondary, and tertiary education and forecast progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets related to education (SDG 4). However, their paper entirely overlooks inequalities in achieving Target 4.2, which aims to achieve universal access to quality early childhood development, care and preschool education by 2030. This is an important omission because of the substantial brain, cognitive and socioemotional developments that occur in early life and because of increasing evidence of early-life learning's large impacts on subsequent education and lifetime wellbeing. We provide an overview of this evidence and use new analyses to illustrate medium- and long-term implications of early learning, first by pres

SUBMITTER: Richter LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8433172 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature