The Scale-Up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy : Why Interventions Lose Impact at Scale and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover)

1. Failed to Scale: Embracing the Challenge of Scaling in Early Childhood? Section 1: 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? Section 2: 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? 11.?70 to 700 to 70,000: Lessons from the Jamaica Experiment? Real-world Application and Understanding of the Threats to Scaling: Commentary on Chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10? 12.?A Research Agenda Built for Scale? Section 3: 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:?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-Three System of Care? 21. Building Political Will??22. Recommendations for Mitigating Threats to Scaling? ?