HighScope Educational Research Foundation

Mission: To close the opportunity gap through high-quality early childhood education.

For over 50 years HighScope has led the movement to empower educators, lift families, and prepare our youngest for school and for life. We’re creating strong instructional leaders across the country and around the world — helping programs build capacity for sustained positive outcomes and ensuring every teacher is supported and every child can thrive.

We work side-by-side with teachers and programs studying classroom practice and child outcomes. Then, we bring the best of that research as evidence to support local, state, and national policies that advance the field of early childhood education. Our research defines best practices in early education and we use that knowledge to design HighScope products and services that empower early educators and ensure young children receive a high-quality education.