Description: A Good Start--Scaling-Up Access to Quality Services for Young Roma Children : Case Study of the Roma Education Fund Pilot Project

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A Good Start--Scaling-Up Access to Quality Services for Young Roma Children : Case Study of the Roma Education Fund Pilot Project

This report is a case study of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) project 'a good start: scaling-up access to quality services for young Roma children' (hereafter, 'A Good Start' or 'AGS'), implemented by lo...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACCESS TO PRESCHOOL ACCOUNT ADULT LIFE ADULT LITERACY ADULTS AGE COHORT AGED ATTENTION BASIC LITERACY BIRTH CERTIFICATE CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS CLEAN WATER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMPETENCIES COMPLETION RATE DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT EARLY CHILDHOOD EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION EARLY LEARNING EDUCATION FACILITIES ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT RATES ENROLMENT INCREASES ENROLMENT RATES FAMILY MEMBERS FATHERS FIRST GRADE HABITS HEAD TEACHER HEAD TEACHERS HOME LEARNING HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION INSTRUCTION INTERVENTIONS KINDERGARTEN KINDERGARTENS LANGUAGE SKILLS LEARNING LEARNING ACTIVITIES LEARNING ENVIRONMENT LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES LEARNING OUTCOMES LIBRARIES LIFE SKILLS LITERACY LITERACY CLASSES LIVING CONDITIONS MOTHER TONGUE MOTHERS MOTIVATION NONFORMAL EDUCATION NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS OLD AGE PARENT PARTICIPATION PARENTS PARTICIPATION RATES PERCEPTION PLAYING POSITIVE FEEDBACK PRESCHOOL TEACHERS PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOLS READING REGULAR ATTENDANCE RURAL LOCATIONS SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL SUPPLIES SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIALIZATION SPECIAL NEEDS SPEECH TEACHER TRAINING TEACHERS TEACHING TRAINING MATERIALS TRAINING OF TEACHERS TUITION VULNERABLE CHILDREN YOUNG CHILDREN YOUTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/18600107/good-start-ags-scaling-up-access-quality-services-young-roma-children-case-study-roma-education-fund-pilot-project http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16983

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Summary:	This report is a case study of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) project 'a good start: scaling-up access to quality services for young Roma children' (hereafter, 'A Good Start' or 'AGS'), implemented by local partner organizations of the Roma Education Fund. It follows the companion report 'toward an equal start: closing the Early Learning Gap for Roma Children in Eastern Europe' (World Bank, 2012), which provided an assessment of the preschool and early learning gap between Roma and their non-Roma neighboring children using the UNDP/World Bank/EC regional Roma survey (2012) data. The objective of this report is to learn from the practical experiences by the AGS project and thus to provide practical insights for policy makers and program managers designing Early childhood and care services promoting inclusion of Roma children and their families. The annex at the end of this case study provides an overview of some other practical resources. By no means a comprehensive list, it includes information on early childhood education and care training materials and projects, which have been designed to benefit young Roma children, as well as examples of information on tools and methodologies to improve the quality of ECEC for minority or other disadvantaged children more generally. REF, in collaboration with its international partners, has also developed several useful resources based specifically on the AGS experience. These include (i) case studies that were developed to explain the different methods used to help the children and their families, (ii) 'a teacher's guide to good practices in inclusive early childhood services', and (iii) a 'good practice guide to data collection.