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Early Childhood Education


  Professional Organizations
Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) The ACEI is dedicated to promoting quality education for children from infancy through early adolescence as well as professional growth among childhood educators.
National Head Start Association (NHSA) The NHSA is a private, not-for-profit membership organization that works on behalf of the more than 2,500 Head Start programs in the U.S.
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) As the largest organization of early childhood educators in the nation, NAEYC is dedicated to improving educational programs for children from birth through third grade.
National Association for Early Childhood Teacher Educators (NAECTE) The NAECTE is committed to improving early childhood education by promoting the professional growth of early childhood educators and providing a forum to discuss educational issues. http://www.naecte.org/
  Web resources
Child & Family Webguide A website created by Tufts University that evaluates web sites dealing with child development research.
Earlychildhood.com A web page created for early childhood educators that includes project ideas, research articles and a discussion board.
Early Childhood Educators & Family Web Corner This website page provides an index of many early childhood sites.
Early Head Start Early Head Start (EHS) is a federally funded community-based program for low-income families with infants and toddlers and pregnant women. Its mission is: to promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women, to enhance the development of very young children, and to promote healthy family functioning.
The Independent School Entrance Examination (ISEE) Practice Test Prep Review This is a site that provides information and free online practice tests to assist ISEE test takers.
Michigan Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) The Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP), previously known as The Michigan School Readiness Program (MSRP), provides formula driven state aid funds to public school districts and public school academies only.
National Network for Childcare This website provides many articles and other links of interest to early childhood educators.
PBS Teachers: Early Childhood PBS provides early childhood educators with curriculum tools and professional resources
Parents as Teachers Parents as Teachers is the overarching program philosophy of providing parents with child development knowledge and parenting support.
  Reference works
Early childhood education : an international encyclopedia v.1-4
Location: Reference Collection - 1st Level North Call Number: LB1139.23 .E272 2007
Books For BOOKS on education, click on the LIBRARY CATALOG tag on the Halle Library homepage. A Keyword Search allows you to search for a book by subject. To search for a specific book, author, or journal select Author/Title/Journal Title, etc.
  Indexes to articles
Academic OneFile & General OneFile (Search Academic & General OneFile) (1980 - ) Search both Academic OneFile and General OneFile, which together index about 15,000 titles and include more than 8,000 full-text titles. They index The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor; include full-text from wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world; and index general interest magazines; refereed academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers.
Education Abstracts (1983 - ) Index to the contents of about 400 education periodicals. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch) titles included
Educator's Reference Complete (1980 - ) Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.
ERIC (1966 - ) The ERIC database contains abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. (via FirstSearch)
PsycARTICLES (1894 - ) "PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of advertisements and editorial board lists." Updated weekly. (via CSA)
PsycINFO (1887 - ) Index to the contents of over 2,100 journals, as well as chapters, books, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields. Updated monthly. (via CSA)

Maintainer of this guide: Susann deVries, Librarian       last updated: August 30, 2009

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