The findings come from a new early years toolkit from the Education Endowment Foundation, which assesses the effectiveness and cost of different learning strategies, by weighing up the findings of educational research.
Its aim is to provide guidance for early years professionals on how to use their resources to improve the learning of disadvantaged children, and also estimates the cost of implementing each strategy in a group of 25 children from ‘very low’ – less than £80 per child a year, to ‘very high’, more than £1,200 per child.
The toolkit has been produced with academics from the School of Education at Durham University, led by Professor Steve Higgins.
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