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The National Association for the Education of Young Children recently revised its Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP), the standard for early childhood care and education. Josh Thompson and ...

As a technology-loving kindergarten teacher, I frequently ask myself, “Is this lesson developmentally appropriate?” If it’s not, how can I use technology to make the lesson accessible to all students ...

Recognizing that early childhood education in the United States has been influenced deeply by notions of developmentally appropriate practice, this critical conceptual analysis of early education ...

Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) impose stressors on development. Comparative studies have focused mostly on the units’ medical qualities and less on their developmental ‘ecology’. The aim of the ...

On April 21, Gov. Kay Ivey forced a top state official to resign. Ivey said Barbara Cooper’s Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education was distributing teacher training materials that included ...