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Out of my selection I found NIEER: National Institute for Early Childhood Education Research at http://nieer.org to be extremely interesting. NIEER’s purpose is to “Conduct and communicate research to support high-quality, effective early childhood education for all young children (National Institute for Early Childhood Education Research, 2014).” NIEER believes this type of education will enhance the overall development of children including their: Physical, cognitive, and social development in school and later life. NIEER Institute serves as an independent, research-based advisor and assistant to policymakers, journalists, researchers, and educators. This resource contains tons of early childhood education content with the majority geared towards preschool programs. The website content is based on NIEER’s aim to provide a vision of early education excellence that is useful to policy makers and understandable to the general public.As a Early Childhood Professional I would use NIEER's website quick facts about Early Childhood Education. 

            Upon arrival to the home page there is a list of NIEER research topics to click for further information. There are a total of 12 research topics to choose from some include: Assessment, economics and finances, quality and curriculum, outcomes, special education, teachers and government and accountability. These research topics are used for a variety of reasons. The most important are to: “Monitor and evaluate national and state progress toward early educational excellence, develop standards, regulations and other policies to improve quality, increase access to good preschool programs, and explain the costs, outcomes and economic benefits of alternative policies (National Institute for Early Childhood Education Research, 2014).” The depth of information in each topic is truly amazing.