Office of Educational Services & Support

Preschool

As announced on the November early childhood teleconference:
Building Strong Foundations for Early Learning: Guide to High Quality Early Childhood Programs.  This guide is an initial step designed to provide guidance to local, district, and state educators about the hallmarks of quality early childhood programs. It includes short syntheses of research about the characteristics of early education programs that have the most influence on the development of cognition and learning, and indicators based on the research that can be used to assess the quality of preschool programs. The guide can be used as a self-assessment tool for existing programs or a source of quality standards for the development of new programs. Web availability only.  http://www.ed.gov/offices/OUS/PES/early_learning/