Research by Gary Evans shows that the physical environment—noise level, overcrowding, and housing and neighborhood quality—profoundly influences child development including academic achievement, cognitive, social and emotional development as well as parenting behavior. []
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CECP integrates applied research with teaching and extension outreach in ways to promote greater understanding of young children and their families as well as policies and practices that enhance child development. Activities focus on early development, care and education of children from low-income families as universal family and community needs; family support in the child care context; integration of strategies; and international exchange and comparison in the early childhood arena.
CECP's on-line resources include fact sheets on finding childcare, research summaries, program reports, conference presentations, links to trusted websites for information on early childhood, and much more.
The Online Portfolio is a project of the Ithaca Prekindergarten Staff Development Initiative, a collaboration between the Ithaca City School District and Cornell University.
The Online Portfolio offers professional development tools that help teachers respond intentionally to classroom dilemmas. The materials are designed for staff developers who work with prekindergarten teachers and administrators who work with teachers, prekindergarten children and their families.
The Parenting in Context Initiative in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management focuses on integrating extension and research activities in the area of parenting education.
This project provides a wealth of on-line resources for educators including research briefs on relevant topics, guides for conducting program evaluations, archived webcasts, handouts from Parent Education Inservice trainings, a listing of trusted websites for parenting information, and summaries of research in conjunction with parenting related events at Cornell or in the national news.
