Overview

Very poor people often postpone enrolling their children in school and skip preschool entirely, not realizing the importance of early education and being unable to support the many “hidden costs” of education. The result is widespread early school abandonment – because these children never catch up academically to their peers.

“Fiecare Copil in Scoala” beginning with PRESCHOOL

Ovidiu Rom trains and assists schools and communities to successfully integrate impoverished children into the education system at an early age. Fiecare Copil in Scoala (“Every Child in School”) is a national initiative to get every poor child in Romania in early education programs, preferably at the age of three, so they have a chance of succeeding in school and graduating from high school. Fiecare Copil in GRADINITA is Ovidiu Rom’s Step-by-Step process for recruiting and keeping poor youngsters in preschool.

Ovidiu Rom’s methodology encompasses:

• working closely with the local authorities,
• neighborhood kindergarten and school registration drives,
• teacher training,
• summer and after-school program,
• parent involvement and incentives (similar to conditional cash transfers) tied to children’s perfect attendance in preschool.

When a child’s educational and life prospects improve, everyone benefits. High quality early childhood programs boost not only educational achievement, but also promote social inclusion and good citizenship.

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