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AskERIC, the award-winning internet-based
education information service of the Educational Resources
Information Center (ERIC) System, consists of three components:
(1) a question/answer service, (2) a virtual library, &
(3) a research and development team.
The overarching mission of the center
is to assure high quality, affordable child care services
by upgrading the training and compensation of teachers and
providers. The mission includes policy and program development,
research and evaluation, and public education activities
at the national, state and local levels.
The Center on English Learning and Achievement
(CELA) is dedicated to improving the teaching and learning
of English and language arts. CELA's research seeks to learn
what elements of curriculum, instruction, and assessment
are essential to developing high literacy and how schools
can best help students achieve success.
CIERA's mission is to improve the reading
achievement of America's children by generating and disseminating
theoretical, empirical, and practical solutions to persistent
problems in the learning and teaching of beginning reading.
CREDE does research to develop effective
educational practices for linguistic and cultural minority
students, including those placed at risk by factors of race,
poverty, and geographic location.
The Center for Social Organization of Schools
is an educational research and development center at Johns
Hopkins University. Also housed there is the Center for
Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk, which
conducts research, development, evaluation, and dissemination
to help transform schooling for students placed at risk.
Information on Child Care and Development
Block Grant, links to other Administration on Children and
Families sties and other information within the Department
of Health and Human Services.
The mission of the council, a nonprofit
corporation in Washington, DC, is to increase the status
and recognition of early care and education professionals
who care for children from birth through 5 years of age
in child care centers, family child care homes, and as home
visitors.
CLAS is a federally funded collaborative
effort of universities and national organizations. The CLAS
Early Childhood Research Institute identifies, evaluates,
and promotes effective and appropriate early intervention
and preschool practices that are sensitive to culturally
and linguistically diverse (CLD) children and families.
The Division for Early Childhood (DEC)
of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is a nonprofit
organization advocating for individuals who work with or
on behalf of children with special needs, birth through
age eight, and their families.
a comprehensive system for continuously
measuring the skills and needs of individual children with
disabilities from birth to eight years of age, from investigators
at the universities of Michigan, Kansas, & Oregon
Report produced by the Office of Education
Research and Improvement (OERI), US Department of Education,
to document and analyze significant local examples of innovative,
successful reforms in early childhood services. Designed
to provide recommendations to early childhood practitioners,
managers, and policymakers on how to create more high quality
early childhood programs.
ECRC seeks to promote the optimal development
of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. The Center provides
training that translates developmental research to best
practices for practitioners and policy makers.
Under the leadership of New Hampshire
Governor Jeanne Shaheen, ECS' 2000-01 chairman, ECS is carrying
out a two-year initiative focused on early care and learning.
The agenda of this initiative complements the work of other
national organizations engaged in early childhood policy.
The mission of the Education Commission of the States is
to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public
policy for education that addresses current and future needs
of a learning society.
Families Worldwide’s mission is to strengthen families
around the world through supporting and unifying family
friendly programs and organizations. This Web site is designed
to be the center for the most current scholarly work and
news on the family. We will provide you with hundreds of
articles, news, and antidotes for family solidarity and
strength.
The Foundation for Child Development seeks to understand
children, particularly the disadvantaged, and to promote
their well-being. We believe that families, schools, nonprofit
organizations, businesses, and government at all levels
share complementary responsibilities in the critical task
of raising new generations.
The Head Start Bureau funds two annotated
bibliographies in a searchable format on the Internet. These
are the Annotated Bibliography of Head Start Research with
over 2,800 resources from 1965 to the present, and the Annotated
Bibliography of Research on Infant and Toddler Interventions,
which has about 200 entries. Both bibliographies include
abstracts of quantitative and qualitative research, as well
as literature reviews and descriptive studies.
Literacy Corner has been developed by the
National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement (CELA).
For many years CELA has been one of the nation’s
leading authorities on how children develop literacy and
how adults
can help them do so. CELA's web page has become a vital
resource for
teachers, administrators, parents, and policymakers involved in K-12 schooling.
It is a site rich with research reports, newsletter articles, policy briefs,
and classroom materials.
NACCRRA is dedicated to providing the
most up-to-date and useful information to parents seeking
child care, child care professionals, NACCRRA members, and
child care advocates.
The National Association for the Education
of Young Children (NAEYC) is the nation's largest and most
influential organization of early childhood educators and
others dedicated to improving the quality of programs for
children from birth through third grade.
NCCIC has been established to complement,
enhance and promote child care linkages and to serve as
a mechanism for supporting quality, comprehensive services
for children and families. NCCIC is supported by a contract
from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration
for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth
and Families, Child Care Bureau
The National Research Center on Rural Education Support (NRCRES) conducts
a focused program of research to seek solutions to common problems in rural
education, and thus increase the quality of services to children in rural
communities. The NRCRES was established in 2004 with funding from the
Institute for Educational Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.
Designed to provide information about comprehensive, challenging
research in the area of early childhood education. Funded
by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement at
the US Department of Education, it is committed to improving
the development and learning of young children, birth to
age eight.
The National Institute for Early Education
Research supports early childhood education initiatives
by providing objective, nonpartisan information based on
research.
Includes link to government sites, professional
organizations, and sites devoted to technical assistance
issues.
Pre-K Now collaborates with advocates and policymakers to lead a movement for high-quality,
voluntary pre-kindergarten for all three and four year olds.
Our vision is a nation in which every child enters kindergarten prepared to succeed.
QUILT is a national training and technical
assistance project funded by the Federal Head Start and
Child Care Bureaus. Its purpose is to support full-day full-year
partnerships among child care, Head Start, prekindergarten,
and other early education programs at the local, state,
tribal, territorial, and regional levels.
A division of the Academy for Educational
Development, this organization works to focus attention
on the widespread problem of inadequate care and schooling
for millions of young children in developing countries.
SERVE is a consortium of educational
organizations whose mission is to promote and support the
continuous improvement of educational opportunities for
all learners in the southeast states of Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
The Southwest Educational Development
Laboratory is a private, not-for-profit education research
and development company in Austin, TX. SEDL works with
educators, parents, community members and policymakers
tosolve educational problems. SEDL then works with them
to put the strategies into practice.
Search for FPG research, training,
and technical assistance project sites.
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