Expanding knowledge of brain and child development, along with growing evidence regarding effective interventions to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families, led the National Academies of ...

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Early-childhood and elementary school programs reflect a diverse set of commitments about what children ought to learn, and about how they ought to do so. Some focus on academic preparation and ...

The Yale Child Study Center’s Comer School Development Program (SDP) is hosting two events at the Omni Hotel in New Haven on Oct. 22-23 in celebration of its 50th anniversary. There will be a ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Development can be thought of as a journey. The journey begins at conception with a genetic roadmap to guide the way. As this journey continues through predictable stages of birth, infancy, childhood, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract When children think of objects as organized into collections (e. g., forest, army) they become better able to solve certain problems than when ...