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…
By Norbert Schady. A conference on “Investing in early Childhood: A Global Perspective on the Interplay between Family and Interventions”…
By Aimee Verdisco. If anyone ever doubted the power of comparison to move policy, consider these results from standardized tests applied to…
Working women in Latin America have just three months of maternity leave, which is less than the 14 week minimum established by the ILO’s Maternity…
By Patricia Jara. Significant advances in research and evaluation have exponentially expanded our understanding of child development. Using this…
