US Links

• High Scope Perry Preschool
• The Carolina Abecedarian Project
• Chicago Child-Parent Center Longitudinal Study
• Head Start Research
• Early Head Start Evaluation

Organizations

• Department of Education
• National Association for Young Children (NAEYC) Home page of the US largest organization of early childhood professionals.
• Parents Action for Children
• Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute For a list of publications sponsored by the Insitute please click here
• Childcare Exchange

Universities and Research Institutions

• HarvardGraduate School Education: The Harvard Family Research Project HFRP features regular newsletter [The Evaluation Exchange] and the on-going The early childhood evaluation project. The faculty at HGSE conduct two on-going ECD research projects: the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project and the The NICHD study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
• Columbia University: The National Center for Children and Families Housed at Teachers College, Columbia University, center focuses on contemporary social and public problems affecting underserved children and families.
• Columbia University: The Institute for Child and Family Policy. Their website features the International Clearinghouse on international developments in child, youth, and family policies in industrial societies
• Columbia University: National Center for Children in Poverty
• Yale University: Center in Child Development and Social Policy
• Princenton: The Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
• Brandeis University: The Family and Child Policy Center
• University of Wisconsin-Madison: Early Child care & afterschool Care Wisconsin Center for Education Research
• Mathematica Policy Research
• Gateway to University research centers working on ECD-related issues
• Univ of Illinois: Clearing House on Early Education and Parenting
• Univ of Maine: Early Childhood Education on Line - community offers support and opportunities for information exchange to all educators: families, teachers, caregivers, and others interested in providing quality care and learning situations for young children birth through 8 years.