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Arkansas Early Learning was founded in Rogers, Arkansas on December 10, 2010, by Michael Patterson and Nelson Walter as a sole proprietorship. The two founders incorporated in Arkansas on May 16, 2011, [ 3 ] and received IRS 501(c)(3) Public Charity designation status on December 5, 2011. [ 4 ]
In 1973, the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) funded the Child Development Associate Credential (CDA) to improve the quality of early childhood education (ECE.) The CDA was based on a combination of verified training hours, objective testing, and direct observation of the ...
ECCE was further reinforced by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), albeit only partially. Adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, two of the MDGs had direct relevance to early childhood development: (i) improving maternal health, with the targets of reducing the maternal mortality rates by three-quarters and providing universal access to reproductive health (MDG4), and (ii) reducing ...
Early childhood education, in its professional form, emerges in the United States in the early 20th century. In 1926, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAYEC) was founded, and is still active today. Around this time, we also see the inception of development education standards along with teacher training programs.
It is a separate and distinct organization from NAEYC with its own governing body, its own position statements, and its own scholar journal (Dimensions of Early Childhood). [1] As a response to flooding on the Gulf Coast of the United States in 2005, SECA undertook a number of projects to help preschool-age children and programs in the affected ...
Arkansas Historical Quarterly 21#2 (1962) pp. 99–131. online; Penton, Emily. "Typical Women's Schools in Arkansas before the War of 1861-65." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 4.4 (1945): 325-339. online; Ritter, Gary W. "Education reform in Arkansas: Past and present." in Reforming education in Arkansas: Recommendations from the Koret Task Force ...
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NAEYC accredits early childhood programs according to health, safety and education standards it first launched in 1985 and modified and released in September 2006. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The new standards were intended to provide a more reliable and accountable accreditation system and to encourage the field of early childhood education to strive for a ...