Dr. Amy Hedrick serves as Project Director of the Targeting Reading Intervention: A Rural Early Literacy Initiative within the National Research Center on Rural Education Support. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Elon University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Loyola University Chicago. Amy recently completed a NRSA postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Developmental Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, prior to joining the TRI research team. Her research has focused on the development of children's cognitive skills within multiple contexts (i.e., home and school) and she is committed to a multi-method approach to the study of development (e.g., longitudinal and experimental methods) to best understand the mechanisms that underly growth in children's competencies. Amy's interest in rural education stems in part from her experience as an adolescent in a rural mountain community in southwestern Virginia.

Amy Hedrick

National Research Center on Rural Education Support
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
517 S. Greensboro Street
Sheryl Mar North
CB# 8040
Carrboro , NC 27510919-966-9128
amhedric@email.unc.edu