As K-12 education reform and early childhood education become more prominent policy concerns and as we learn more about early development and learning, several issues are receiving heightened attention. Below are resources on some of these critical issues. Click on the issue that interests you to learn more.
Research Reports
- Financing Quality Rating Systems: Lessons Learned
- The New Economics of Preschool: New Findings, Methods and Strategies for Increasing Economic Investments in Early Care and Education
- Exceptional Returns: Economic, Fiscal, and Social Benefits of Investment in Early Childhood Development
- Full-day and Half-day Kindergarten in the United States: Findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99
- What Happens When the School Year Is Over?
The Use and Costs of Child Care for School-Age Children during the Summer Months - High-Quality Early Childhood Care and Education Shows Economic and Social Gains, Less Crime
NAEYC Summaries of Select Research
- When Babies and Toddlers are in Child Care, Accreditation is a Key to Quality
- Making a Difference in the Lives of Infants and Toddlers and Their Families: The Impacts of Early Head Start
- Long-term Effects of an Early Childhood Intervention on Educational Achievement and Juvenile Arrest
- From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
- A Good Beginning: Sending America's Children to School with the Social and Emotional Competence They Need to Succeed
- Partnering For Success: Community Approaches to Early Learning
- Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers
- America's Kindergartners
- Early Learning, Later Success: The Abecedarian Study
- The Children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study Go To School
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