Best Education Schools?

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<p>What are the best schools for Early Childhood Education? Specifically in New England would be great. I have a 3.7 GPA, if that helps you...</p>

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<p>Where do you want to work?</p>

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<p>Definitely look into the Lynch School of Education at Boston College.</p>

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<p>what do you mean? like what type of school or “where” like region-wise?</p>

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<p>Licensing for ECE depends on the state where you will work, and sometimes even on the county or city within that state. It also depends on the setting in which you’d like to work. For example, the minimum requirement to work in a small day care facility/pre-school in my area is a 30 hour course that doesn’t carry any transferable college credits. Further education is required periodically, and to operate your own in-home day care there are more requirements.</p>

<p>In some states ECE is a full teaching certificate program that requires four years of coursework, supervised student teaching, etc. Often that type of ECE teaching certificate includes certification for kindergarten. In other states, ECE is an add-on certificate completed along with a lower-elementary (K-3) or even a full elementary (K-6) teaching certificate.</p>

<p>If your longer range goal is to pursue graduate-level research in early learning, you may want to investigate programs at universities that offer something along the lines of the Bronfenbrenner Center at Cornell: [Cornell</a> Early Childhood Program | Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research | BCTR](<a href=“http://www.bctr.cornell.edu/projects/cornell-early-childhood-program/]Cornell”>http://www.bctr.cornell.edu/projects/cornell-early-childhood-program/) Chances are that one of the public universities in your own state offer a similar program.</p>

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<p>There is a separate forum on CC for education majors, if you start reading there you will find lots of good info. Financially, your best bet is your state university system.</p>

<p>Try using the college search tool here on CC with all of your data. [College</a> Search - College Confidential](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search/]College”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search/)
Be sure to expand the number of results at the top (20 by default) and be sure to select “must have” for any important criteria, otherwise it may come up with some odd matches. </p>

<p>What’s good about this site is that it compares your GPA and test scores against the reported ones for the schools and tries to guess the “fit”. It represents the fit as percentage and when you click on the “why?” underneath the fit number it shows you how you compare.</p>

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<p>Best Elementary Teacher Education Program</p>

<p><a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-education-schools/teacher-education-rankings[/url]”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-education-schools/teacher-education-rankings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<h1>1 Michigan State University - East Lansing</h1>

<p>Go State!! :)</p>

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<p>It’s not in New England, but one of the best is Vanderbilt’s Peabody College.</p>

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<p>Tufts - [Eliot-Pearson</a> Department of Child Development: Tufts University](<a href=“http://ase.tufts.edu/epcd/programsUndergradTeach.asp]Eliot-Pearson”>http://ase.tufts.edu/epcd/programsUndergradTeach.asp)</p>

<p>Easier to get into are:
Lesley University, that is well known for education programs - <a href=“http://www.lesley.edu/PageTemplate.aspx?id=708[/url]”>http://www.lesley.edu/PageTemplate.aspx?id=708&lt;/a&gt;
Simmons, a women’s only school in downtown Boston <a href=“http://www.simmons.edu/undergraduate/academics/departments/education/[/url]”>http://www.simmons.edu/undergraduate/academics/departments/education/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;