This paper discusses the relationship between education and crime from an economic perspective, developing a human capital-based model that sheds light on key ways in which early childhood programs and policies that encourage schooling may affect both juvenile and adult crime. The paper first discusses evidence on the effects of educational attainment, school quality, and school enrollment on c...

With the development of network technology, more and more data are transmitted over the network and privacy issues have become a research focus. In this paper, we study the privacy in health data collection of preschool children and present a new identity-based encryption protocol for privacy protection. The background of the protocol is as follows. A physical examination for preschool children...

BACKGROUND In the UK just over a fifth of all children start school overweight or obese and overweight 2-5 year olds are at least 4 times more likely to become overweight adults. This can lead to serious future health problems. The WHO have recently highlighted the preschool years as a critical time for obesity prevention, and have recommended preschools as an ideal setting for intervention. Ho...

This paper discusses the relationship between education and crime from an economic perspective, developing a human capital-based model that sheds light on key ways in which early childhood programs and policies that encourage schooling may affect both juvenile and adult crime. The paper first discusses evidence on the effects of educational attainment, school quality, and school enrollment on c...

The Early Childhood Initiative (ECI) of Allegheny County (including the city of Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, was an ambitious, large-scale effort to provide high-quality early care and education (ECE) services to disadvantaged infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children. As understood by ECI’s planners, such services go well beyond the simple supervision of children while parents work or attend...

Beginning school is an important milestone for children. Children's readiness for school involves cognitive, physical, and emotional development. Certain school programs allow children to start first grade after 66 months of age, together with 72 month-old children. In order to estimate school readiness, we screened children before starting first grade and compared their school performance acco...

The article reveals the organizational aspects of practice-oriented activities students in process forming managerial competence, particular, use method analysis specific situations example discipline “Planning and Management Preschool Education”, taught at Uman State Pedagogical University. “Preschool education” second (master’s) level higher education.The purposes using situation analysis, ty...

During the first years of a child's life, intensive development of the sensory system takes place. This is characterized not only by quantitative but also by deep qualitative changes in the content and structure of the appropriate processes. The study of this development has important theoretical and practical value insofar as the ontogenesis of the sensory system creates the necessary prerequi...

AIM This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a parent education program, the Happy Parenting program, for Chinese preschool children with developmental disabilities. METHODS This study adopted randomized controlled trial design without blinding. Participants were randomized into intervention group (n=62) who were offered the Happy Parenting program delivered by educational psychologists a...