Research

• Early Childhood Research Quarterly
• Social Constructivist Theory Article on social constructivism, including links to Vygotsky and other pn-line resouces.
• ERIC Clearinghouse
• Early Childhood Research Institute on Measuring Growth & Development Produces a comprehensive, individualized measurement system for children with disabilities from birth to eight years of age, and their families.
• National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education Sponsors comprehensive and challenging research in order to help ensure that America's young children are successful in school and beyond -- and to enhance their quality of life and that of their families.
• ABC of ECD - An Early Child Development Knowledge Base Available in English, Spainish and French.
• The Consultative Group Overview of Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD)
• Tufts- Project Spectrum Offers an alternative approach to assessment and curriculum development for the preschool and early primary years. Project Spectrum's work is based on the belief that each child exhibits a distinctive profile of different abilities, or spectrum of intelligences.
• Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth

On-line child care searches and training calendar for providers.

• National Parent Information Network-ERIC Clearinghouse on early childhood & elementary education.
• Child Care Aware Organization's mission is to ensure that every parent has access to good information about finding quality child care and resources in their community, through national consumer marketing and by raising visibility for local child care resource and referral agencies.
• The Stork Site On-line Pregnancy and pareenting community.

  

• Build a Playhouse Inexpensive playhouse for toddlers.
• Colorado Parent Information & Resource Center Helps families and schools work better together to ensure children succeed in school. CPIRC is a network of statewide organizations and six community agencies representing urban and rural communities working together.

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