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38 minutes agoRemembering Thelma Harms, who transformed evaluation of early childhood education programs
Harms was widely known as the lead co-author of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS), an observational framework that transformed how educators, researchers and governments evaluate early learning settings. Developed during her tenure as Director of Curriculum Development at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the ECERS created with co-authors Richard Clifford and Debby Cryer became one of the most widely used measures of early childhood program quality worldwide.
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