Growing Your Collection of Resources

Course Media: "The Resources for Early Childhood"

NAEYC. (2009). Developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs serving children from     birth          through  age 8. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/dap

        

NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on child abuse prevention. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from   http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/ChildAbuseStand.pdf

NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on school readiness. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from

http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/Readiness.pdf

        

NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on responding to linguistic and cultural diversity. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/diversity.pdf

        

NAEYC. (2003). Early childhood curriculum, assessment, and program evaluation: Building an effective, accountable system in programs for children birth through age 8. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/pscape.pdf

        

NAEYC. (2009, April). Early childhood inclusion: A summary. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/DEC_NAEYC_ECSummary_A.pdf

        

Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. (2010). Infant-toddler policy agenda. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_pub_infanttodller

        

FPG Child Development Institute. (2006, September). Evidence-based practice empowers early childhood professionals and families. (FPG Snapshot, No. 33). Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~snapshots/snap33.pdf

Article: UNICEF (n.d.). Fact sheet: A summary of the rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Rights_overview.pdf

        

World Forum Foundation
http://worldforumfoundation.org/wf/wp/about-us

World Organization for Early Childhood Education
http://www.omep-usnc.org/

Association for Childhood Education International
http://acei.org/

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National Association for the Education of Young Children
http://www.naeyc.org/

     

The Division for Early Childhood
http://www.dec-sped.org/

     

Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families
http://www.zerotothree.org/

     

WESTED 
http://www.wested.org/cs/we/print/docs/we/home.htm

     

Harvard Education Letter
http://www.hepg.org/hel/topic/85

FPG Child Development Institute
http://www.fpg.unc.edu/

     

Administration for Children and Families Headstart's National Research Conference
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hsrc/

     

HighScope
http://www.highscope.org/

Children's Defense Fund
http://www.childrensdefense.org/

Center for Child Care Workforce
http://www.ccw.org/

     

Council for Exceptional Children
http://www.cec.sped.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

Institute for Women's Policy Research
http://www.iwpr.org/

     

National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education
http://www.ncrece.org/wordpress/

     

National Child Care Association
http://www.nccanet.org/

National Institute for Early Education Research
http://nieer.org/

     

Pre[K]Now
http://www.pewstates.org/projects/pre-k-now-328067

Voices for America's Children
http://www.voices.org/

     

The Erikson Institute
http://www.erikson.edu/

Educational Quotes

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!"

-Andy McIntyre

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

-Sydney J. Harris

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."

-George Bernard Shaw

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

-Henry Adams

"Early education is most certainly the next wave of educational reform ...the U.S. is simply playing catch up with the rest of the industrialized world."

-Dr. Donna Shalala

"Effective preschool raises achievement levels for all children, and it offers real hope for closing the school readiness gap."

-Jack O'Connell

"Children who participate in (high-quality Early Childhood Education) programs are more likely to have the necessary skills-such as abstract reasoning, problem solving and communication-to meet the demands of tomorrows workforce."

-Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America