Early Learning Standards & Quality Rating Systems: The Effect on Programs & Classroom Practices

 
04 Apr 2006
 
7:00 PM
 
LeBaron Auditorium

Helen Raikes will discuss what states are doing when implementing standards indicators and quality rating systems; what states are learning about readiness; and the impact of early learning standards on classroom practices and implications for preparing teachers.Her work at The Gallup Organization and the University of Nebraska has focused on child care, infants and toddlers and indicators of child well-being. She has a doctorate from Iowa State University. This is sponsored by the Barbara E. (Mound) Hansen Early Childhood Lecture Series Endowment and the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.