Tuesday, 04 Apr 2006
Early Learning Standards & Quality Rating Systems: The Effect on Programs & Classroom Practices
Helen Raikes will discuss what states are doing when implementing standards indicators and quality rating systems; what states are learning about readiness; and the impact of early learning standards on classroom practices and implications for preparing teachers.Her work at The Gallup Organization and the University of Nebraska has focused on child care, infants and toddlers and indicators of child well-being. She has a doctorate from Iowa State University. This is sponsored by the Barbara E. (Mound) Hansen Early Childhood Lecture Series Endowment and the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.
The Interplay of Music and Physics - Laurie McNeil
Why do musical instruments make the sounds that they do, and not others? Why are some combinations of sounds considered pleasing, while others are not? Physicists and mathematicians have pondered these questions for thousands of years, and the answers are fundamentally simple but practically complex. The close connection between music and physics will be explored in this presentation, from both the scientist's and the musician's perspective. Laurie McNeil is Chair and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina. She received her doctorate in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.