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• Resources! Resources! Many of you have asked about the resources mentioned by Kelly Maxwell on the Research Highlights Telephone Seminar on 3/24/11. Here are the links to those resources:

  Here are the sites:
  
  www.fpg.unc.edu
  www.researchconnections.org
  
  Here's the link to the Smart Start summary of their evaluation efforts
  http://hugh.ncsmartstart.org/uncategorized/evaluation-weve-got-that
  
  Here's the link to the NIEER video "Growing and Learning in Preschool" plus some other videos:
  http://nieer.org/video/
  
  Foundations:
  Preschool Foundations:     http://www.ncprek.nc.gov/Foundations/index.asp  
  I-T Foundations:  http://ncchildcare.dhhs.state.nc.us/providers/pv_infant_toddler_foundations.asp 
  
  
  Research review on dosage & thresholds for quality:
  http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/cc/q_dot/quality_review.pdf
  
  http://developingchild.harvard.edu/