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U.S. Department of Education Early Childhood Research Projects -- A brief summary of Early Childhood Research Projects in the U.S. Department of Education. [WORD] [PDF]

Ear Infections & Language Development -- A new publication that explains how ear infections may affect a child's language development and what you can do to help. HTML or PDF

Ready-to-Learn Television --Research shows that Dragon Tales has a positive impact on children's growth and development.

Ready-to-Learn Television -- A formal Evaluation of Between the Lions by the University of Kansas concluded that the program does indeed help kids learn to read.

The Country Note (pdf format) for the United States of America is an output of the OECD Thematic Review of Early Childhood Education and Care Policy. The goal of the review is to provide cross-national information to improve policy-making in early childhood education and care in all OECD countries. The Adobe (pdf) version (Portable document format) can be read by DOS and MAC and the Adobe Acrobat Reader Program is free to download.

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