Led by Michael Levine, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center is doing some of the best research I know of around education, child development, and new media.

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The nurses offer guidance in areas such as child development, preventative health measures, parenting skills, breastfeeding, better diet information and on education and employment.

BBC: Family nurse scheme extended to Lanarkshire and Highland

Given that limited access to quality ECE has negative effects on child development which, in turn, undermines child performance at primary and post-primary school, The Mother-Child Home Education Programme (MOCEP) was initiated in 2000 to empower poor families to provide early childhood literacy training to their children through a home-based intergenerational literacy training approach.

UNESCO: The Mother-Child Home Education Programme (MOCEP)