By Sara Schodt. In this post, I want to share a summary of some preliminary – and therefore anecdotal – impressions from my experience…
On Tuesday, I wrote about the results of several Jamaican studies that were presented in London last week at the “Promises for Preschoolers: Early…
Last week in London, University College London (UCL), 3ie (International Initiative for Impact Evaluation), the Institute for New Economic Thinking,…
By Sophie Gardiner. In May of this year, in honor of Mother’s Day, Save the Children published its 13th annual report on the “State of the…
By Julia Johannsen. In a recent post in this blog, Caridad Araujo offered some reflections on the need to “keep our focus on children first.” When I…
By Cynthia Hobbs. Hillary Clinton used this African proverb in her book, It Takes a Village And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, to…
By Sergio Urzúa. There is no doubt that events that occur (or do not occur) during early childhood have long-term effects. Science has…
A few weeks ago, I read an interesting article in Time magazine that criticized “overparenting”—or extreme parenting–which has been a growing trend…
On March 26, the Center for Universal Education (CUE) and the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) co-hosted a half-day event about “…
By Daniela Philipp. In our last post, we talked about the alarming levels of chronic malnutrition in Guatemala, where 49 percent of…
By Márcia Gomes da Rocha and Francisco Ochoa. This week, the Government of Brazil has launched Açao Brazil Carinhoso – ABC (Loving Action…
By Daniela Philipp. There is alarming news on malnutrition from Guatemala: 49.8% of children between 3 and 59 months of age suffer from…