Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8
(Adopted July 1996)
Under Revision (Coming in November 2008)
After more than three years of work guided by a panel of experts and drawing
on the input of hundreds of early childhood professionals, the Governing Board
of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) has
approved a revised position statement on "Developmentally Appropriate
Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8."
The position statement, which builds on the expanding early childhood knowledge
base and the wisdom of thousands of practitioners who used the original, will be
included in the revised publication, Developmentally Appropriate Practice
for Early Childhood Programs(#234/$12).
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