“What this study is asking is whether or not, as a matter of public policy, is it a straightforward way to achieve the important goal of early childhood development.” -- Matt Klein, executive director, New York City Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity
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Mind in the Making: 10 Years of Keeping the Fire Burning in Children’s Eyes
Research Becomes a Book; A Book Becomes a Movement
Not all adventurers wear rugged clothes and pith helmets; some carry laptops, notebooks and pens. But all are driven by the same impulse: They have a question and they won’t rest until they have an answer that satisfies them. “What’s over that mountain?” “Where does this river go?”
In the case for Ellen Galinsky, author of more than 100 books and reports and a self-described “research adventurer,” the driving question in 2000 was, “How do we keep the fire burning in children’s eyes?”
Every year, ZERO TO THREE presents a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of “significant and enduring contributions to improving the...
Geography and Race, State by State, Can Determine the Fate Of Both Mother and Baby
CAP Report Outlines the Data
The U.S. has the highest maternal and infant mortality rates among any comparable developed countries. In 2017, it ranked 55th...
Recently, the anthropologist James Peacock III told me about the night in 1964 when his newborn daughter Louly had swallowed...
How can parents turn every day moments with their children – bath time, meal-time, even trips to the laundromat – into learning moments for their kids? Patti Miller, CEO of Too Small to Fail, explains.
What It Takes to Nurture “Little Leaders”: Reflections from a Family Care Provider in the Bronx
With Training and Tech Assistance from All Our Kin
Loving ice cream doesn’t qualify you to open an ice cream parlor. The same goes for child care. Entrepreneurs who...
When Jack Shonkoff speaks, the early childhood field listens. Shonkoff, a pediatrician who leads Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child,...
More than 2 million children in the U.S. belong to families that don’t speak English or don’t understand it well;...
Art and Soul: Teaching Zuni Art Across Generations
Zuni Youth Enrichment Project Connects Renowned Artists with Students for Art and Entrepreneurship
On a recent Friday afternoon, student artists at the Zuni Youth Enrichment Project (ZYEP) were busy getting ready for an...
An increasing number of pediatric care facilities employ child life specialists—trained, certified professionals who focus on young patients’ experiences and...
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