About the National Center for Rural Early Childhood Learning Initiatives

"The National Center for Rural Early Childhood Learning Initiatives provides a national research base to study the unique challenges that face young children, their caregivers, and educators in rural America. I am pleased that the Department of Education is supporting Mississippi State University's efforts to spearhead this new area of research." U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran

The National Center for Rural Early Childhood Learning Initiatives fosters original and applied research on the quality, accessibility, and replication of early educational intervention services for at-risk young children and families in rural America.

The center was established in 2004 with a grant in the amount of $2.187 million from the United States Department of Education. It is a program of the Mississippi State University Early Childhood Institute, which is part of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. Mississippi State University is located in Starkville, Mississippi.

The center has commissioned groundbreaking analyses of the availability of data about rural young children in national datasets, and further analyses of rural disparities in early childhood services indicators and child well-being indicators in datasets that contain rural markers. See Presentations and Reports for presentations and published reports to date.

 

 

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Updated 12/01/2006