Topic: Child Care

Child Care: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Resources, Evaluating Early Childhood Education Programs

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A wealth of early childhood education and preschool resources provide articles, research and practical advice for parents and professionals. These websites provide cost/benefit analyses and information on evaluating early childhood programs, information about child care, the transition to kindergarten and many more.


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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.

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.

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-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.

This site provides a substantial amount of research-based, parent-friendly information through childcare, early childhood education and preschool resources, especially as it relates to the transition to kindergarten.

The National Association for the Education of Young Children provides position statements geared toward a mixed audience and the collection of brief articles called "Early Years Are Learning Years," geared toward parents. Early childhood and preschool resources explore child care and the quality of early education programs. The site also features suggested reading lists and policy information.

This website, sponsored by the University of Colorado, provides parent-friendly and research based information regarding indicators of quality childcare.

A variety of research-based and practical information, for parents, professionals, and the public, on topics relating to family child care. This site offers publications, newsletters, a listserv, links to related sites, and state-by-state information.

The National Association of School Psychologists provides advice for parents on high quality child care, as well as safety tips for older children who might stay home alone. The site also includes a searchable online "Publications" database, position papers on various topics, and relevant legislative information.

Child care research summaries from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Education cover academic red-shirting, academic resilience, after-school, at-risk students, child care quality and parent involvement.

Provides useful articles on parent's perspectives on childcare among various cultures and on inclusion of children with disabilities in child care. The site also offers a directory of information (in the form of hyper-links to research-based information elsewhere on the web) for a variety of child-related topics. There are many other publications on a range of topics available on this site.