Continuing to share information from Web resources

As I continue through this course, I gain new knowledge or insight each week. This week as we talked bout other fields that can have an influence on early childhood. I took another look at the www.nieer.org site and found that they conduct research in the areas we talked about this week. There is a whole tab section on economics and finance at the same time there is an additional tab on governance and accountability. It's not that I can say I never knew, but I guess I never paid much attention until this week to the other fields that play a role and have an impact on early childhood education. What I like about the NIEER site is that even though it is based here in my home state of New Jersey the information on the site is about all states. While my local state would be my primary focus, it is interesting to take a look at what other states are doing. If a state is working a plan successfully then maybe in some ways we could try it here. The site does include other information pertaining to quality, assessment, access, teachers, state programs as well as more. This site touches on all aspects and topics I believe have an impact on the early childhood field in one way or another. This week for me really tied together how other fields and early childhood work together, or should work together, for the betterment of our children and thus the betterment of our country in the future.