Educational Development Center

This research and development center in Newton, MA, has many resources and projects related to Early Childhood Teaching and Learning, including

• Early Literacy Study, with findings about the relationship between rich language experiences for four-year-olds and their future academic success.
• QUILT, a national project that supported full-day, full-year partnerships among child care, Head Start, prekindergarten, and other early education programs at the local, state, tribal, territorial, regional, and federal levels.
• PreSchool Science Toolkit, a science curriculum that helps teachers guide children's exploration of the world around them to help them develop knowledge of that world as well as language and social skills:
• NBPTS certification