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Author List, John A

Title The Scale-Up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy Why Interventions Lose Impact at Scale and What We Can Do about It
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (453 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Editor Biographies -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Failed to Scale: Embracing the Challenge of Scaling in Early Childhood -- PART I: The Science of Early Childhood and Complexities of Scaling -- 2. Early Childhood: The Opportunity to Untap Human Potential -- 3. How Cognitive Biases Can Undermine Program Scale-Up Decisions -- 4. How a Behavioral Economic Framework Can Support Scaling of Early Childhood Interventions -- 5. The Economics of Investing in Early Childhood: Importance of Understanding the Science of Scaling -- PART II: The Scale-up Effect: Understanding the Threats to Scalability -- Scaling: A Case Study -- 6. The Science of Using Science: A New Framework for Understanding the Threats to Scaling Evidence-Based Policies -- 7. When is Evidence Actionable? Assessing Whether a Program is Ready to Scale -- 8. Studying Properties of the Population: Designing Studies that Mirror Real World Scenarios -- 9. Fidelity and Properties of the Situation: Challenges and Recommendations -- 10. Spillovers and Program Evaluation at Scale -- Commentary 1: Real-World Application and Understanding of the Threats to Scaling: Commentary on Chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10 -- 11. 70 to 700 to 70,000: Lessons from the Jamaica Experiment -- 12. A Research Agenda Built for Scale -- PART III: Charting a Path Forward -- 13. Designing Programs with an Eye Toward Scaling -- 14. Accounting for Differences in Population: Predicting Intervention Impact at Scale -- 15. Sustaining Impact after Scaling Using Data and Continuous Feedback -- 16. Measurement Built for Scale: Designing and Using Measures of Intervention and Outcome that Facilitate Scaling Up
Commentary 2: Lessons Learned from Scaling Cost Measurement in Federal Early Care and Education and Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs -- 17. Enabling Contexts to Support Scale-Up: Lessons from Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships -- 18. Embedding Workforce Development into Scaled Innovations to Prevent Declines in Administration Quality -- 19. Forging Collaborations for Scale: Catalyzing Partnerships among Policy Makers, Practitioners, Researchers, Funders, and Evidence-to-Policy Organizations -- 20. Process to Identify Effective Policies to Strengthen the Prenatal-to-3 System of Care -- 21. Building Political Will -- 22. Recommendations for Mitigating Threats to Scaling -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Child development.
Early childhood education.
Child Development
early childhood education.
Child development
Early childhood education
Form Electronic book
Author Suskind, Dana
Supplee, Lauren H
ISBN 9781000384291
1000384292