As parents, educators and policymakers wrestle with the reality that a large and growing percentage of U.S. children are obese...
“Five- and six-year-old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators.” –President Lyndon B. Johnson, May 1965 In...
An unfortunate fact about the health care and child development information physicians try to cover during well-child checkups is that...
For adults who’ve spent much of the past two years watching PowerPoint presentations while attending Zoom meetings, the idea of...
Study Shows Stronger Outcomes for English Learners with Early Access to Pre-K Programs
Benefits Include Stronger Attendance, English Language Development and Early Literacy
Bilingual educators weren’t immune to the COVID-19 burnout that hit teachers this year. For example, last October, Illinois school districts...
Unstructured Play and Self-Regulation Study Shows Children Need Time and Space to Make Their Own Fun
Common wisdom dictates that young children thrive on structure; as a result, caregivers may feel pressured to fill up children’s...
Unleashing the Learning Potential of Latino Infants
New Report from UnidosUS Draws Attention to the Crisis—and Proposes Solutions
When our educational system fails to make the most of the talent entrusted to it, not only do children and...
Developed in the 1990s, Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) aim to increase the availability of high-quality early education programs,...
When an international team of researchers surveyed humor development in children from 1 to 47 months, they asked parents to...
How the Stories Kids Tell Shape Their Worlds
A conversation with Andrei Cimpian of NYU’s Cognitive Development Lab
Why am I having trouble counting when my friends aren’t? Is it because I’m not smart? How come Mom quit...
