“Neuroscientists find that early stress affects brain development” Paul Tough looks at how environmental stress affects children’s ability to learn and what helps them succeed despite adverse conditions Interview by Caroline Smrstik Gentner / December 11, 2017
Preschool education can be very effective, but the details matter Jeanne Brooks-Gunn examines how well preschool education programs work and what can be done to make them better Interview by Sabine Gysi / December 6, 2017
In Britain, life expectancy of poorest children is 8-9 years shorter Candice Odgers about sharing the tools that help implement better policy and change the trajectories of children’s lives Interview by Sabine Gysi / November 29, 2017
What does it take to scale quality education? After identifying the core ingredients, real-time scaling labs are to shed light on what works by Jenny Perlman Robinson / November 20, 2017
Kids growing up in poverty struggle to acquire vital cognitive abilities Silvia Bunge on developing interventions to better support the learning of goal-directed behavior and reasoning in children Interview by Sabine Gysi / October 11, 2017
Teaching children how to avoid getting sick How can children learn to play an active role in their own disease prevention? by Vanessa LoBue / October 6, 2017
How to design people’s environments so they can benefit from programs Better ways to engage children and parents from economically disadvantaged backgrounds with early interventions, using behavioral economics Interview by Sabine Gysi / September 13, 2017
Leveraging technology can make a difference in refugee children’s lives Psychologist Selcuk Sirin explains how digital games can improve mental health and educational outcomes of Syrian refugee children in Turkey Interview by Gelgia Fetz Fernandes / August 18, 2017
To what extent does poverty compromise children’s development? An extensive clinical trial that will follow children from birth and test them at age three will provide answers Interview by Sabine Gysi / August 9, 2017
Helping war-affected young people build skills for coping and resilience Theresa Betancourt explains what challenges children from war zones encounter and how successful reintegration could look like Interview by Cathrin Jerie / August 4, 2017
Marshmallows aren’t likely to fix low-income kids’ real problems It's not all about self-control. Children's decisions are driven instead by the forces of evidence and expectations by Celeste Kidd / July 31, 2017
Timely data analysis needed to create education policy Matthew Chingos, director of Urban Institute's Education Policy program, on the importance of timely data in making sound policy decisions Interview by Julianne Hill / June 28, 2017
