The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education aims to support the effort to simultaneously
scale up and improve the quality of early childhood education by bringing together relevant
insights from emerging research to provide guidance for this critical, fledgling field. It reflects
the growing recognition that early childhood experiences have a powerful effect on
children's later academic achievement and long-term life outcomes. Editors Nonie K. Lesaux
and Stephanie M. Jones bring together an impressive array of scholarly contributors. Topics …

As the title indicates, The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education: Linking Science to
Policy for a New Generation is a compendium of detailed information, research, articles, and
evaluations of old and new innovations in the early childhood education field, with great
emphasis on the science of implementation. In our continuously globalized world, where
women's role in the society is extending far beyond domestic responsibilities, there is also
an increased call for quality early childhood education experience for young children …