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Funder

Smith Richardson Foundation

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University of North Carolina

Date: 12-31-1995

Amount: 50,000

Comment: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center
Revising the ECERS and Re-Establishing Reliability and Validity
This grant supports a project to update, refine and document a scale used to measure the quality of early childhood environments, the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale or ECERS. The revised scale will incorporate new understanding regarding health, safety, interaction, diversity, and literacy. The scale can help evaluators measure and compare the quality of childcare, earlyeducation, and home settings.