NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
For 100 years, NAEYC has been the leading voice driving high-quality early childhood education—elevating the profession, advancing children’s outcomes, and building a community of passionate advocates.
NAEYC's response to the Administration recently announced plans to freeze or delay federal child care funding across the country in response to unfounded fraud allegations in Minnesota.
NAEYC's response to the early childhood educator, with legal authorization to work in the United States, being detained by federal immigration officials at her child care program, in front of children and families.
NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
Parents and providers alike want child care that is affordable, reliable, safe, and high-quality, led by qualified and respected educators, and supported by strong standards that protect children and the adults who care for them.
NAEYC's Commission on the Accreditation of Early Childhood Higher Education Programs is pleased to announce that it has granted accreditation to early childhood programs during its Summer 2025 meetings.
Today, the Senate narrowly voted to pass budget legislation that will cause significant harm to many children, families, and early childhood educators.
NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
NAEYC celebrates the life and mourns the passing of Maurice Sykes, former NAEYC Governing Board member and coleader of NAEYC’s Black Caucus Interest Forum.
NAEYC's Commission on the Accreditation of Early Childhood Higher Education Programs is pleased to announce that it has granted accreditation to early childhood programs during its Spring 2025 meetings.
Michelle Zurita-Sharpe is a special education teacher in a blended pre-K classroom at Blair Early Childhood Center, a Chicago public school. Blair serves children in prekindergarten through second grade.
Sometimes our listening reinforces what we thought we knew—and sometimes it takes us in directions we didn’t anticipate, identifies consequences we didn’t envision, and helps us find solutions we hadn’t thought of.
