TOPIC: Early Childhood Development and Education

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Center Brief

• Early Development and School Readiness from the Perspective of Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Preschool Programs: A Synthesis of Current Policy Issue

Introductory Packet

• Early Development and Learning from the Perspective of Addressing Barriers

Technical Assistance Sampler

• A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning

Information Resources

• About What Young People are Experiencing During the Pandemic
• COVID-19, Remote Learning, and Students' Social-Emotional Development
• Sex Education and Social-Emotional Development
• Early Language Development Problems  

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

Community and Schools
• Bringing It Together: State-Driven Community Early Childhood Initiatives
• Community Interventions to Promote Healthy Social Environments: Early Childhood Development and Family Housing
• School Readiness Tips and Tools. Zero to Three

Fact/Statistics
• Guide to Datasets for Research and Policymaking in Child Care and Early Education
• Low Income and the Development of America's Kindergartners

Funding and Policy
• The Economics of Investing in Universal Preschool Education in California
• Initiatives from Preschool to Third Grade: A Policymaker's Guide
• Investing in our Children: What We Know and Don't Know about the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Intervention
• Policy Issues in Early Care and Education: Recent Citations from the ERIC Database

General
• Accelerating Progress on Early Childhood Development for Children under 5 Years with Disabilities by 2030
• Bright Futures: Early Childhood Tools. Parent Education Handouts
• Bright Futures Tool and Resource Kit
• Does early childhood education help to improve high school outcomes?
• Early Childhood Development Education and Care: The Future Is What We Build Today
• Early childhood development: impact of national human development, family poverty, parenting practices and access to early childhood education
• Early Childhood Assessment: Why, What, and How
• Early Childhood Longitudinal Study
• Early Learning and Child Care: Agencies Have Helped Adress Fragmentation and Overlap through Improved Coordination
• From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
• Health Care, Family, and Community Factors Associated with Mental, Behavioral, and Developmental Disorders in Early Childhood
• The Healthy Schools Toolkit 101
• Individual differences in toddler's prosociality
• Inclusion of Children Living with Disability in Early Childhood Development and Education: Construction of a Stakeholder-Informed Framework
• Landscape Analysis of Early Childhood Development and Education in Emergencies
• Losing Ground in Early Childhood Education
• Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development
• Partner Build Grow: An Action Guide for Sustaining Child Development and Prevention Approaches
• Readiness: School, Family & Community Connections
• School Readiness
• The Science (and Art) of Youth Readiness
• Study offers more evidence of the benefits of preschool
• Transition and Alignment: Two Keys to Assuring Student Success

Head Start
• Head Start and Even Start: Greater Collaboration Needed on Measures of Adult Education and Literacy
• Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey

Intervention and Transition
• Early Childhood Intervention: Views from the Field
• Extended Childhood Intervention Prepares Children for School and Beyond
• Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development
• Proven Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions
• Strength based educational interventions in rural settings: promoting child development through home-school partnerships

Preschool
• Eager to Learn: Educating our Preschoolers

Programs and Recommendations
• Middle School Strategy: Leveraging the Science of Learning and Development to Inform Education in Middle School
• Targeted Early Intervention Programs and Their Benefits

Socio-economics
• Enriching Children, Enriching the Nation
• Children at Risk: Consequences for School Readiness and Beyond
• School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps

States and Government
• State Early Childhood Policies
• Child Care and Early Education: Most States Offer Preschool Programs and Rely on Multiple Funding Sources

Video Clips

• Inbrief: The Science of Early Childhood Development