CYFERNet Evaluation offers early childhood education and preschool resources such as practical evaluation tools, articles, research papers, and courses. This site also offers links to related websites on program evaluation.
Parenting / Family
Selected sites for popular topics
Below we list one highly recommended site for several of our most popular topics. See the list on the left for a complete listing of topics. Click on a topic for a list of several sites.
A site about the After-school Investments Project, which provides technical assistance to State and local leaders supporting after-school efforts. Offers articles on child care and after-school programs for policy makers and parents, including state and national profiles.
Early childhood education and preschool resources provide research articles and reports covering long-term effects of child care, costs and benefits of early child care and after school care and many other topics.
Research and practical information covering effects of child care on development, long-term impact of Head Start, costs and benefits of early child hood programs, and more.
Provides policy/advocacy advice on child care, affordable day care and after-school activities. This journal article uses research and statistics to support its views on how to keep children safe and help them learn while their families work.
Research-based early childhood and preschool resources including information covering a national study of the relationship between child care and children’s development, such as cognition, language, peer relations and health.
Offers research, legislative and practical information on the need for after-school programs, which are argued to improve academic achievement, keep kids safe, and help working families.