When an international team of researchers surveyed humor development in children from 1 to 47 months, they asked parents to...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...
Fresh off his first book, Touchdown Time, Bryson Best took time to discuss his writing process, and how sports and education connect. As Bryson notes, the key to succeeding in either environment is the same: you have to put in the work.
This is the way Liz Ogbu describes herself as a child: “I was the weird one in my family who drew.” But she didn’t become an artist.
New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the nation’s oldest and largest teaching hospitals. They're upping their early childhoold development game with an online curriculum that demonstrates how pediatric residents can promote brain development and help strengthen parent-child relationships within the confines of routine well-child visits
Executive function – the skills to focus and manage tasks – is, of course, central to childhood development. Given that, measuring executive function becomes imperative. How does that work? University of Minnesota professors Stephanie M. Carlson & Philip David Zelazo explain their research and the powerful tool they’ve created. Filmed for Early Learning Nation’s Mobile Studio at the Society for Research in Child Development’s biennial meeting in Baltimore, MD, on March 22, 2019. #SRCD19
Crying is Easy; Laughing is Hard
The Science and Wonder Behind a Baby’s Laugh
The game of peekaboo is a universal language—and there’s way more to it than you might imagine. You know the...
If caregiving is labor, if caregiving supports child development, if caregiving boosts the economy, if caregiving enables family flourishing, then how can we say only institutional programs belong within child care policy?
Within a notoriously underpaid workforce, Louisiana’s child care teachers receive some of the lowest wages—making on average $9.77 an hour...
The last time Early Learning Nation magazine sat down with researcher Dr. Chrishana Lloyd of Child Trends, she had just...
As Schools Shrink, D.C.’s Public Pre-K Shows Lasting Enrollment Benefits
Conor Williams, whose three children went through the program, calls out the new research and other strengths, including allowing families to grow.
Whenever a new presidential administration arrives in D.C., it’s natural that they promise dramatic policy changes. It’s normal that the...
