Early Childhood Education

• Center for the Childcare Workforce
• Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
• Early Childhood Mathematics: Promoting Good Beginnings NAEYC
• Early Childhood Programs and Evaluation
• Earlychildhood.com
• Earlyconnections
• Focus on Early Childhood Education - Harvard Education Letter
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• National Institute for Early Education Research
• National Head Start Association
• Principles of Early Childhood featured in Instructional Leader
• Public Schools and Early Childhood Success
• Reaching All Children? Understanding Early Care and Education Participation Among Immigrant Families
• State Center for Early Childhood Development Report to Texas Legislature
• Texas Head Start State Collaboration Office
• The Early Childhood Challenge: Preparing High-Quality Teachers for a Changing Society
• The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds
• Trust for Early Education
• UNC FPG Child Development Institute

Early Literacy

• Early Literacy Teacher's Guide
• National Institute for Literacy
• The Partnership for Reading

Delaying Kindergarten Entrance/School Readiness

• An Updated Look at Delaying Kindergarten Entry
• Inequality at the Starting Gate: Social Background Differences in Achievement as Children Begin School
• National Association for the Education of Young Children Position Statement on School Readiness
• School Readiness Assessment
• The Foundations for School Readiness: Fostering Developmental Competence in the Earliest Years
• "Too Soon to Test"

Head Start

• Getting Inside the "Black Box" of Head Start Quality: What Matters and What Doesn't
• National Institute for Early Education Research
• Statement by Health and Human Secretary Tommy Thompson on Head Start Passage

Kindergarten

• Early Childhood Longitudinal Study: Kindergarten Cohort (U.S. Department of Education)
• Education Commission of the States - Kindergarten Data
• The Effect of Kindergarten Program Types and Class Size on Early Academic Performance

PreK/Preschool

• Early Childhood Interventions: Proven Results, Future Promise (RAND Corporation)
• Maryland’s Montgomery County School District
• NAESP Editorial on Preschool Education
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• Parenting the Preschooler
• Pre-K Now
• Pre-Kindergarten: Four Selected States Expanded Access by Relying on Schools and Existing Providers of Early Education and Care to Provide Services
• Pre-Kindergarten in US Public Schools: 2000-2001
• Preschools Pay off in Actual Dollars
• Quality Pre-Kindergarten For All
• RAND Study Says Universal Preschool in California Would Generate $2 - $4 for Every Dollar Spent
• Scaling Up High Quality PreK: What Can Be Learned from States' Efforts to Date?
• State-Funded Pre-Kindergarten: What the Evidence Shows
• Study Finds Benefits of Early-Childhood Program Flow Into Adulthood
• Teaching Our Youngest: A Guide for Preschool Teachers and Child Care and Family Providers
• The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy
• The Effects of State Prekindergarten Programs on Young Children's School Readiness in Five States
• The Foundation for Child Development
• The Costs and Benefits of Universal Preschool in California
• The State of Preschool: 2005 State Preschool Yearbook
• The Universal vs. Targeted Debate: Should the United States have Preschool for All?
• Virtual Pre-K
• Who Goes to Preschool and Why Does It Matter?

PreK Texas

• Houston Community-Driven Initiative Addresses Demand for Quality Preschool
• Texas Early Childhood Education Coalition
• Texas' State Center for Early Childhood Development
• The Texas Plan: Enhancing Early Childhood Education and Development