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Stress Hormones In Preschoolers Improve With Emotional Knowledge, Study Indicates

K.C. Compton

Green Spaces: A Vital Key to Young Children’s Mental Well-Being

K.C. Compton

Connecting Children’s Vocabulary to Knowledge through Science and Shared Book Reading

K.C. Compton

The Ensemble Effort that Pays Big Dividends in Babies’ Language Development

K.C. Compton

‘The End User Is a Dollar Sign, It’s Not a Child’

Elliot Haspel

Research Study: Perception of Neighborhood Safety Can Shape Infant and Maternal Outcomes

K.C. Compton

Study: Health Insurance Differences Can Cost a Baby’s Life

K.C. Compton

The Key to a More Civilized Society? It Might Start with Grandparents

K.C. Compton

New Studies Illuminate Why We Should Invest in New Parents

Kendra Hurley

‘Gold Standard’ Study Finds High-Quality Care Is Important in Infancy

Bryce Covert

Will NYC Mayor Invest in Universal Pre-K or Let It Starve?

Elise Anderson

New Paper: Aligning Early Years and Climate Change Strategies Can Drive Action on Both Fronts

K.C. Compton

Study: We Can Change Minds — and Mindsets — About the Value of Early Childhood

K.C. Compton

Hot Days Impact Kids’ Activity Levels and Health

K.C. Compton

The Research-Backed Way to Keep Kids Safe

Kendra Hurley

The Pandemic Disrupted Gender Equity at Home. Will It Last?

Rebecca Gale

In Babies’ Brains, White Matter Is Crucial — and Conversational Turns Make It Grow

K.C. Compton

Study Finds Preschool Programs Reserved for Children from Low-Income Families Not as Effective as Universal Programs that Include Higher-Income Families

Kendra Hurley

New Study: Race and Mother’s Education Key for Extracurricular Participation

Leigh Giangreco

New Study: A Call to Action to Include Non-English Speakers in Pediatric Research

K.C. Compton

Study Provides High-Tech Window on Mother-Child Brain Synchrony

K.C. Compton

Recent Study Suggests Head Start Programs Provide Effective Intervention in Addressing Childhood Obesity

K.C. Compton

Breaking Poverty’s Grip: New Head Start Study of Second-Generation Statistics Show It Can Be Done

K.C. Compton

Reading Their Way to Better Parenting: Baby Book Projects Show It Can Be Done

K.C. Compton

Learning to Read Online: It’s Possible, Doable and Could Involve Chicken Hats

K.C. Compton

Study Shows Stronger Outcomes for English Learners with Early Access to Pre-K Programs

Leigh Giangreco

Connoisseurs of Silly: Babies Start Laughing Early — And They Think Your Material Is Great

K.C. Compton

How the Stories Kids Tell Shape Their Worlds

Kendra Hurley

Where Have All the Fathers Gone in Child Language Research?

K.C. Compton

Babies Are Surprisingly Altruistic — When They Know You Need Help

K.C. Compton

Chronic Stress Can Affect Preschooler’s Resilience and Self-Control: Sensitive Parenting Can Mitigate Those Risks

K.C. Compton

Latinx Fathers Speak Their Babies’ Love Language, Though They Might Not Realize It

K.C. Compton

Beyond the Brain Science: Early Childhood Luminary Jack Shonkoff Calls For “ECD 2.0”

Elliot Haspel

Study: Giving Mothers Cash Improves Children’s Brain Development

Bryce Covert

Clear the Dance Floor: Baby Steps Happening Here

K.C. Compton

Babies are Naturals at the Fine Art of Taking a Fall — And It Doesn’t Even Slow Them Down

K.C. Compton

Method to the Motion Between Mothers and Toddlers: Synchronized Movements Pave Way for Children’s Interactions with Bigger World

K.C. Compton

Grandmothers: Beyond Babysitters, They’re the Bedrock of Human Evolution

K.C. Compton

New Report: Young Children Took a Blow From COVID. They Need Stable Caregivers to Recover.

Elliot Haspel

Scientists from the Start: Babies Are More Thoughtful, More Analytical than You’d Ever Imagine

K.C. Compton

Babies Love That Special Way You Talk to Them — In Any Language

K.C. Compton

Universal, Public Preschool Found to Help Students Long After They Graduate

Bryce Covert

Crying is Easy; Laughing is Hard

K.C. Compton

Researchers Connect Cardio Health and Cognition — Even as Early as Preschool

K.C. Compton

Vocabulary for the Win with Conversational Turns

K.C. Compton

Zero to 3: Never a Better Time to Learn a Second Language

K.C. Compton

Infants the World Over Can Spot a Lullaby — in Any Language

K.C. Compton

Parents Are Made, Not Born, Research Shows: The Act of Caregiving Creates ‘Parenting Brain’

K.C. Compton

Deploying the Power of Talk for Toddlers Reaps Academic and Social Rewards As They Become Adolescents

K.C. Compton

Learning Early to ‘Taste the Stillness’ Can Set a Child Up for Lifelong Well-being

K.C. Compton

Reduce Mothers’ Stress Now to Improve Mental Health for the Next Generation

K.C. Compton

Three Lessons the U.S. Can Learn From International COVID-19 Child Care Responses

Elliot Haspel

Early Childhood Policy Meets Early Childhood Science: On The Future of Early Learning

Elliot Haspel

Early Childhood Policy Meets Early Childhood Science: On ‘Universal’ Early Learning

Elliot Haspel

Early Childhood Policy Meets Early Childhood Science: On School Readiness

Elliot Haspel

The Ooh-and-Coo Duet of Babies’ Language Learning

K.C. Compton

To the Stars and Beyond from a Tower of Blocks

K.C. Compton

Facing Facts, Finding Solutions in the Race Against Black Postpartum Depression

K.C. Compton

Asset-Informed Care: Seeing People as More than the Worst Thing That’s Happened to Them

K.C. Compton

Little Peepers Forest Preschool: Learning the World Just Outside the Doorway

K.C. Compton

Waving Toys, Scanning Brains to Gain Unprecedented Information About How Babies Learn Language

K.C. Compton

How Babies’ Brilliant ‘Onboard Computers’ Sort Language From Sound Soup

K.C. Compton