Additional info and assistance for states

For more information from the NGA Center for Best Practices, contact: Anna Lovejoy (202/624-5331). Also, visit our Early Childhood Web site, which includes:

• "The First Three Years: a Governors Guide to Early Childhood." Online guide to issues, policies, funding streams, research lessons, and state examples of early childhood care and education initiatives. (June 2000)

• "Where There’s a Will: Promising Ways to Promote Early Childhood." Proceedings from NGA's September 2001 national meeting on building public and political will for early childhood programs.

• Our list of State Early Childhood Resources

Publications

• Center for Law and Social Policy: "State Initiatives to Promote Early Learning: Next Steps in Coordinating Subsidized Childcare, Head Start, and State Prekindergarten" (May 2001)

• Education Week: "Quality Counts 2002, Building Blocks for Success: State Efforts in Early Childhood Education" (January 2001)

• Children’s Defense Fund: "State Developments in Childcare, Early Education, and School-Age Care" (2000)

• Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: "Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers" (2000)

• National Research Council and Institute of Medicine: "From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development" (2000)

Other organizations

• The Child Care Partnership Project

• Education Commission of the States: Search for “early childhood”

• National Center for Early Development & Learning (NCEDL): Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill).

• National Childcare Information Center:
  – Includes their Childcare Partnership Project

• ZERO TO THREE: National Center on Infants, Toddlers and Families

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