Expanding and Improving Early Childhood Education in Turkey
Over the past decade, Turkey has experienced significant socioeconomic progress and demographic changes. The benefit of Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs is maximized when the interventions are targeted to children from disadvantaged familie...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/03/17981921/expanding-improving-early-childhood-education-turkey http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16066 |
| Summary: | Over the past decade, Turkey has
experienced significant socioeconomic progress and
demographic changes. The benefit of Early Childhood
Education (ECE) programs is maximized when the interventions
are targeted to children from disadvantaged families. This
report examines the ECE provision in Turkey, and offers
policy options for improving and expanding the ECE system in
the future. The report endorses the goal of the expansion
plan and provides detailed recommendations for achieving
this ambition in an efficient and equitable manner. This
report is divided into following four sections: section one
gives introduction, section two presents an analytical
framework for analyzing early childhood interventions,
section three conducts an in-depth analysis of ECE in Turkey
and identifies key challenges, and section four recommends
and outlines proposals for a dual-program strategy for
expanding quality ECE in Turkey. |
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