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A Good Start: Advances in early Childhood Development

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Nearly 50 years ago, in 1966, the Bernard van Leer
Foundation funded its first major project aimed at
enhancing the development of young children: the
Project for Early Childhood Education (pece ), which
was initiated in Jamaica. Funds were made available
to the University of the West Indies to improve Basic
Schools – nursery schools set up and run by the
community (Bernard van Leer Foundation, 1999).
It is also five decades this year since the United
States first started its Head Start programme, with
the aim of providing comprehensive services to
support the development of young children living
in poverty and engage and empower their families.
In the intervening half-century, knowledge and
understanding of the importance of the early years
to long-term health, education and behaviour have
grown dramatically. This issue of Early Childhood
Matters celebrates the advances made over those
past five decades, and calls for a new era, a global
movement to bring services for young children and
families to scale.

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The Netherlands : Bernard van Leer Foundation., 2015

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English

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1387-9553

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