• Economic Policy Institute - Inequality at the starting gate: Social background differences in achievement as children begin school
• National Center for Children in Poverty

Ministry web sites

Belgium (Flanders)

• Ministry of the Flemish Community, Education Department
• Department of Welfare, Public Health and Culture (in Flemish)

Belgium (French Community)

• Ministère de l'enseignement 
• Office de la Naissance et de l'Enfant

Czech Republic

• Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport
• Ministry of Health (in Czech)

Denmark

• Ministry for Children, Education and Gender Equality

Ireland

• Department of Education

Italy

• Ministry for Education, University and Research(in Italian)

Mexico

• Ministry of Education (in Spanish)

Netherlands

• Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
• Ministry of Education, Culture and Science

UK

• Department for Education & Skills
• Department of Health

USA

• Department of Health and Human Services

 

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Research // International Sites

• World Bank - Early Child Development
• UNESCO Early Childhood and Family Site
• UNICEF
• UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence
• Australian Institute of Family Studies – Journal: Family Matters
• Canada Childcare Resource and Research Unit
• UK Economic and Social Research Council
• UK Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK

US-based Sites

• America's Children in Brief 2004
• An online journal from ERIC Early Childhood Research and Practice
• ERIC Early Childhood Research Institute on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
• US, in association with ERIC - short fact sheets
• US National Association for the Education of Young Children
• US National Governors' Association (see early childhood) 
• US National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education
• US National Child Care Information Centre
• US National Centre for Early Development and Learning
• US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• US The Packard Foundation
• US Annie E. Casey Foundation 
• Teachers’ College, Columbia University
• Columbia University clearing house on children youth and family

 

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