In 1999, University of North Carolina sophomore Rye Barcott was sitting in Swahili class when a recent alumnus, just back...
First-Ever Study Provides High-Tech Window on Mother-Child Brain Synchrony
I-LABS Collaborates with Japanese and Taiwanese Brain Scientists
We’ve all had the experience of feeling “in synch” with another person, and mothers frequently describe feeling a “psychic connection”...
Autumn is officially here! In case you were overloaded with back-to-school-daze and all the other shifts that come with seasons...
RAPID Celebrates 5 Years of Surveys
What makes RAPID surveys unique is the priority of disseminating results quickly in a format that is accessible and usable.
When the RAPID Survey Project began in April 2020, everyone involved thought it would be a short-lived, ad hoc undertaking...
Connecticut Becomes First State in Nation for Baby Bonds
Helps Tackle Generational Poverty in Low-Income Families
Connecticut just took an unprecedented step: on June 30 it became the first state in the country to create baby...
A universal child care plan rolled out by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, one of the roughly two dozen...
Preschools Teach ‘Hardly Any Math’, Even as Students Struggle in Later Grades
Math advocates say more early math, taught through play or games, can help students later.
Preschool teacher Emily Johnson counts the row of green bear figurines Mayeda Alan, 4, has set on a table at...
We’ve been through a lot together the past few years. A lot. A few weeks ago, experts and teachers told...
COVID-19 has obviously presented an array of challenges to states during 2020. What is the most important lesson you’ve learned...
While we’re taking Early Learning Nation Studio on the road less often during the pandemic, we’re offering recaps—Top Takeaways—from important...
Though it’s been decades since I’ve read it, I’m certain I could come out of a deep sleep and, if...
Along with this history of metastatic industrial development, staggering pollution, relentless corruption and breathtakingly bad policy, Rector presents the other side of the coin: the fierce, courageous, dogged commitment of activists pushing back decade after decade, demanding cleaner air, better working conditions and water that wouldn’t poison their children.
