When you see a baby gazing on the world, you might imagine a little sponge passively soaking up information. Don’t...
Amid the technological hustle and bustle of the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Science (I-LABS), one research-assistant position requires a particularly specialized skill set: Toy Waver.
GoPro cameras are all the rage with skateboarders and other extreme athletes who want to capture their exploits for YouTube....
Most U.S. schoolchildren know more about the Amazon rain forest than the ground beneath their feet and more about penguins...
Language evolves. What was once a just-right phrase that fit a situation like a glove can, in time, become constraining...
The Education Trust recently issued a new report, Young Learners, Missed Opportunities. Subtitled “Ensuring That Black and Latino Children Have...
For seven years, I’ve shared the brain science of Mind in the Making (MITM) with people from all walks of...
Fixing a Broken Marketplace
Talking Childcare with Elliot Haspel
Sometimes what seems like idealism at first can actually be canny realism. Case in point: Elliot Haspel’s recent book Crawling...
For babies to have the best start in life, they need to form a deep emotional bond with the person...
The building block has been such a fact of American childhood for so long, it’s easy to dismiss the humble...
