Teachers College Press

Teachers College Press (also known as TC Press) is the university press of Teachers College, Columbia University. Founded in 1904, Teachers College Press has published professional and classroom materials for over a century and currently publishes 70 titles per year.

In addition to publishing materials for educators that "expand the dialogue between theory and practice," from infant/toddler to adult learning, Teachers College Press publishes the Environment Rating Scale® Family of Products. According to their website, the ERS are "research-based tools to assess the comprehensive quality of early childhood programs . . . The ERS are widely used in the U.S. and abroad to guide continuous quality improvement initiatives and to optimize the quality of early learning opportunities for young children." The first edition of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale® (ECERS), by Thelma Harms and Richard M. Clifford, was published in 1980.