The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University has released a new online video, entitled InBrief: The Foundations of Lifelong Health, which explains why our society’s continued productivity and prosperity depend on healthy child development. You can view the online video at: http://developingchild.harvard.edu/library/multimedia/inbrief_series/inbrief__the_foundations_of_lifelong_health/ The foundations of long-term physical and psychological health include: Stable, responsive [...]
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The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers
By DAVID LEONHARDT Published: July 27, 2010 NY Times Economists have generally thought that the answer was not much. Great teachers and early childhood programs can have a big short-term effect. But the impact tends to fade. By junior high and high school, children who had excellent early schooling do little better on tests than [...]
Resource on the Well-Being of Latino Children
The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) and the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) have coauthored America’s Future: Latino Child Well-Being in Numbers and Trends, which provides an overview of Latino children in the US by integrating a range of key factors and outcomes in demography, citizenship, family structure and income, education and language, health, and [...]
Social-Emotional Development of Children
The North Carolina Child Care Health and Safety Bulletin recently did a 5-part series on CSEFEL (Center on the Social Emotional Foundations of Early Learning), which is a great framework for providing social-emotional/mental health consultation in child care. Take a look at the attachment for a compilation of the entire series. Full of good practical [...]
