Early Childhood Education Research Guide: Web Sites
A guide to resources for early childhood education and child development
General Sites for Early Childhood Education
- National Child Care Information CenterA Federally funded organization which supports quality early childhood education initiatives. Provides a number of online publications, newsletters, and fact sheets.
- National Association for the Education of Young ChildrenProfessional association which promotes excellence in early childhood education. The "Public Policy" link is of particular interest.
- Child Care & Early Education Research ConnectionsFree searchable database of quality resources including research reports, journal articles, books, government documents, etc. provided by a group of well-known non-profit child care organizations and the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
- Early Childhood Education OnlineA wide ranging collection of early childhood links associated with the email discussion group ECEOL-L.
- Earlychildhood.comFor teachers and parents of children from infants to age 8. Hosts EarlychildhoodNEWS with articles and hot topics and curriculum and activities ideas.
- National Network for Child CareResources and learning activities for children.
- ChildCare.govThe Federal government site which provides information for parents, providers, and researchers.
Statistics About Children
- ChildStats.govOfficial Web site of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.
Professionalism
- Code of Ethical Conduct: Statement of CommitmentFrom the National Association for Education of Young Children
Child Development Sites
- Children's Services Course ResourcesFrom the North Coast Institute in Australia. Scroll down to the child development and child development theories links. Theorists include Bandura, Freud, Froebel, Kohlberg, Maslow, Montessori, Piaget, Reggio Emilia, Skinner, Steiner, and Vygotsky.
- ProTeacherCommercial site has information on stages of development, research, theories of child development, learning styles, brain research, self-esteem, and links to other topics.
- Child Development InstituteCommercial site provides information mainly for parents on such areas as prenatal, normal, intellectual, language, social/emotional, and physical development but also gives links to research topics.
- The ABC of EDCA knowledge base on early child development. A collection of articles on numerous aspects of early childhood development programs.
- Tufts University Child and Family WebGuideDescribes and evaluates Web sites that contain research-based information about child development.
- Early Child DevelopmentA knowledge base on early child development.