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OPRE Grant Announcement: Secondary Analysis of Data on Early Child Care and Education
The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recently published a discretionary research funding announcement titled “Secondary Analyses of Data
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Call for Papers: The Society for the Study of Human Development
Society for the Study of Human Development 9th Biennial Meeting Hilton Garden Inn Hotel Austin, Texas October 16–18, 2015 Person, Biology, Culture, and Society: New Directions in Human Development The Society for the Study of
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Look who’s swiping now: 6-month-old babies are using smartphones, study says
The Washington Post: Smart phone. Dumb idea. More and more Americans are handing their smartphones to their kids, some as young as 6 months old, according to a new study. Experts warn, however, that the habit
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Students’ Family Income Linked With Brain Anatomy, Academic Achievement
Many years of research have shown that for students from lower-income families, standardized test scores and other measures of academic success tend to lag behind those of wealthier students. A new study led by researchers
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Researchers Found the ‘Bystander Effect’ in 5-Year-Olds
New York Magazine: The 1964 stabbing death of Kitty Genovese in New York City went a long way toward kicking off social psychologists’ interest in the subject: In the story’s initial reporting and subsequent retellings
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Babies resemble tiny scientists more than you might think
PBS: It’s been well established that when infants see something surprising, they look longer. This is true for babies as young as two months. But until recently, few had asked why. A new Johns Hopkins
