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This just in from Zero to Three's eNewsletter, The Baby Monitor. The National Infant & Toddler Child Care Initiative at ZERO TO THREE recently published four new documents. Keys to High Quality Child Care for Infants and Toddlers: State and Territory...

The Urban Institute has a new paper that looks at how states and communities are improving access to high quality early childhood programs for immigrant families. It's titled, "Early Education Programs and Children of Immigrants: Learning Each Other's Language." Excerpted...

New research from the National Science Foundation's Division of Social and Economic Sciences finds that children who learn more in kindergarten go on to earn more as adults and are more successful overall. Harvard University economist John Friedman explains in...

Early care and education can prepare children for school, but while some preschool and child care programs do an excellent job, others are inadequate and some may even harm healthy development. This study focuses on child care center directors...

What does research tell us about effective professional development of early childhood educators? According to a literature review prepared for the U.S. Department of Education, not as much as we would like. The authors of the report found that...

Smart Start on the Radio: Listen now! RALEIGH, N.C. - As thousands of children across North Carolina start kindergarten this month and more children are attending pre-school every year, will some kids be too smart for kindergarten, already know too...

Some children come to school knowing far fewer words than others. Researchers have found that even by age three, the gap is evident. Children from families with low incomes had 600 fewer words than their peers from families with...

Have you voted?! You can increase funding to provide more college scholarships for early care and school age professionals across the nation! T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® has the opportunity to win $250,000 through the Pepsi Refresh Project. Vote now! North Carolina provides...

Parents paying for child care know all too well about the findings from Parents and the High Cost of Child Care: 2010 Update--paying for child care is VERY expensive! Published by the National Association of Child Care Resource &...

The Economist has published a fascinating article on the origins of literacy. It discusses research by a  a cognitive neuroscientist that suggests because reading is a relatively new skill in human development, the brain has to unlearn older, more developed survival...