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Bryant, Donna; Maxwell, Kelly; Burchinal, Peg; Lowman, Betsy – 1997
Smart Start is a broad-based community initiative to ensure that all of North Carolina's children arrive at school healthy and ready to learn. This study examined the effect of Smart Start on the quality of child care from 1994-1996. Data were collected from child care centers in 12 counties implementing the initiative. Data collectors visited 180…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Day Care, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Improvement
North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill. Frank Porter Graham Center. – 1997
Smart Start is a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive, community-based initiative to serve North Carolina children under age 6 and their families to ensure that all children enter school healthy and prepared to succeed. To achieve this, local county partnerships have focused both their attention and their funds on three major areas of service…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Health, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill. Frank Porter Graham Center. – 1999
Smart Start is a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive, community-based initiative to serve North Carolina children under age 6 and their families to ensure that all children enter school healthy and prepared to succeed. To achieve this, local county partnerships have focused both their attention and their funds on implementing child care programs,…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Health, Day Care, Early Childhood Education