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- Early Childhood Development & Education
- Government Agencies
- Academic/Research Institutions & Statistic/Electronic Publications
- National Organizations
Early Childhood Development & Education
Early Childhood Education Webguide
The Early Childhood Education Web Guide seeks to provide childcare professionals with the most up-to-date Internet resources. The sites on this guide are checked on a weekly basis to ensure their reliability and integrity.
Early Childhood.com
Earlychildhood.com, brought to you by Discount School Supply, is designed to help you start children down a path of lifelong learning. This is a dynamic opportunity to discuss issues with your colleagues, find an interesting article, share an idea, or simply have a great time using the resources here at Earlychildhood.com. We encourage your participation at all times. Feel free to E-mail us. This is a forum for sharing. "Together We're Better!"
Idea Box: Early Childhood Education & Activity Resources
Government Agencies
U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services
The Department of Health and Human Services is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
National Child Care information Center
The National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC), a project of the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is a national resource that links information and people to complement, enhance, and promote the child care delivery system, working to ensure that all children and families have access to high-quality comprehensive services.
U.S. Department Of Education
Priorities of the President and the Secretary include national efforts to improve reading and math, reduce class size, strengthen school construction, and promote major new 2000 initiatives and the Partnership for Family Involvement in Education.
National Center for Education Statistics
NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations. (U.S. Department of Education).
Early Head Start National Resource Center
The Early Head Start National Resource Center (EHS NRC) provides training and technical assistance to Head Start's new Early Head Start program, which supports the healthy development of infants, toddlers, and their families, and pregnant women. The EHS NRC is operated by ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families and WestEd's Center for Child and Family Studies.
Government Accountability Offices Home Page
The Government Accountability Office is the investigative arm of Congress. GAO exists to support the Congress in meeting its Constitutional responsibilities and to help improve the performance and accountability of the federal government for the American people. GAO examines the use of public funds, evaluates federal programs and activities, and provides analyses, options, recommendations, and other assistance to help the Congress make effective oversight, policy, and funding decisions. In this context, GAO works to continuously improve the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of the federal government through financial audits, program reviews and evaluations, analyses, legal opinions, investigations, and other services. GAO's activities are designed to ensure the executive branch's accountability to the Congress under the Constitution and the government's accountability to the American people. GAO is dedicated to good government through its commitment to the values of accountability, integrity, and reliability.
Academic/Research Institutions & Statistic/Electronic Publications
Child Trends
Child Trends is a non-profit, non-partisan research organization that studies children, youth, and families through research, data collection, and data analysis.
The Division Of Learning/Technology & Assessment of the Arizona Research
To provide an environment in which University of Arizona scientists work collaboratively with leading scholars from around the world to conduct innovative research on learning, technology, and assessment that will produce better student learning outcomes through the improvement of instructional technology and its application. To enhance workforce development and professional development in using technology to improve judgment and decsion making. To provide students and postdoctoral scholars with the requisite knowledge and critical research skills in learning, technology, and assessment for a productive future in their professions.
Education Week On the Web
ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education
Families & Work Institute
Families and Work Institute is a non-profit organization that addresses the changing nature of work and family life. We are committed to finding research-based strategies that foster mutually supportive connections among workplaces, families, and communities.
Cognitive Science Society
The Cognitive Science Society, Inc. brings together researchers from many fields who hold a common goal: understanding the nature of the human mind. The Society promotes scientific interchange among researchers in disciplines comprising the field of Cognitive Science, including Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Education.
National Council On Measurement In Education
Encouragement of scholarly efforts to: Advance the science of measurement in the field of education; Improve measurement instruments and procedures for their administration, scoring, interpretation, and use; Improve applications of measurement in assessment of individuals and evaluations of educational programs. Dissemination of knowledge about: Theory, techniques, and instrumentation available for measurement of educationally relevant human, institutional, and social characteristics; Procedures appropriate to the interpretation and use of such techniques and instruments; Applications of educational measurement in individual and group evaluation studies.
The Education & Research Network
The American Educational Research Association is concerned with
improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry
related to education and by promoting the dissemination and practical
application of research results. AERA is the most prominent international
professional organization with the primary goal of advancing educational
research and its practical application. Its more than 22,000 members
are educators; administrators; directors of research, testing or
evaluation in federal, state and local agencies; counselors; evaluators;
graduate students; and behavioral scientists. The broad range of
disciplines represented by the membership includes education, psychology,
statistics, sociology, history, economics, philosophy, anthropology,
and political science.
www.aera.net
National Organizations
National Head Start Association
The National Head Start Association (NHSA) is a private not-for profit membership organization representing the 835,000 children, upwards of 170,000 staff and 2,051 Head Start programs in America. It is governed by a 49-member Board of Directors composed of a director, staff, parent and friend representative from each of the 12 federal regions and the immediate past president. NHSA provides a national forum for the continued enhancement of Head Start services for poor children ages 0 to 5, and their families. It is the only national organization dedicated exclusively to the concerns of the Head Start community.
National Association for the Education of Young Children
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is the nation's largest organization of early childhood professionals and others dedicated to improving the quality of early childhood education programs for children birth through age eight. Founded in 1926, NAEYC membership is nearly 102,000 and includes a national network of more than 400 local, state, and regional early childhood organizations affiliated with NAEYC. NAEYC Affiliate Groups share and help to implement NAEYC's primary goals of improving professional practice and working conditions in early childhood education and building public understanding and support for high quality early childhood programs.
National Black Child Development Institute
Since 1970 The National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI), a nonprofit organization, has provided and supported programs, workshops, and resources for African American children, their parents and communities in: Early Health and Education, Health, Elementary and Secondary Education, Child Welfare, Parenting. NBCDI believes every African American child has the right to: Live in good health, Learn and grow within a safe environment, care and protection within the family, Develop a positive self image, Take pride in their African American heritage and culture. Through hands-on service and community-outreach programs, NBCDI initiates positive change for the health, welfare, and educational needs of all African American children. Some examples include: Training professionals and parents to work more effectively with African American children Tutoring African American youth to achieve academically, Researching issues and producing resources to aid parents and human-service providers, Serving the needs of community leaders dedicated to informing the public about local and national issues affecting African American children.
Zero to Three
Zero To Three is the nation's leading resource on the first three years of life. They are a national non-profit charitable organization whose aim is to strengthen and support families, practitioners and communities to promote the healthy development of babies and toddlers.
National Child Care Association
The National Child Care Association is a professional trade association focusing on the needs of licensed, private childhood care and education programs. As an alliance of care and education professionals and owners, NCCA holds a singular position in the United States as the only organization representing the specific interests of the licensed, private childhood care and education community. NCCA continues to lead the nation's licensed, private child care and pre-school community while striving for high quality at an affordable cost to parents. NCCA has consolidated the untapped strength of thousands of America's private care and education programs and formed an influential organization dedicated to the needs of the private sector. NCCA is a non-profit professional trade association governed by the membership through a representative Board of Directors. The NCCA Board of Directors is comprised of representatives from its State Association affiliates, national, regional, franchise and at large representation.
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