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Dr. Olson Huff, a nationally known pediatrician who leads the state's Smart Start program, tells host Barlow Herget that science and research have shown children begin learning earlier than once believed.  Dr. Huff says North Carolina's leaders should begin planning to add pre-K grades to public schools the way it did kindergarten during the 1970s.