Kathy is the Stanley and Debra Lefkowitz Faculty Fellow in the Department of Psychology at Temple University and is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, director of Temple University’s Infant Language Laboratory, and the recipient of the AERA Outstanding Public Communication for Education Research Award, American Psychological Association’s Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society, the American Psychological Association’s Award for Distinguished Service to Psychological Science, the American Psychological Society’s James McKeen Cattell Award for “a lifetime of outstanding contributions to applied psychological research,” The Society for Research in Child Development Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development Award and the Temple University Great Teacher Award and the University Eberman Research Award.
Check out Kathy in ABC’s 20/20!
Kathy and her lab colleagues appeared on ABC’s 20/20 to discuss “How toddlers react when parents look down at their phones”– they replicated an experiment asking parents to focus on their phones for two minutes while their toddlers played nearby.
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Check out what is happening with Learning Landscapes
At the intersection of the global cities movement and the movement to optimize early education in and out of school, lies Playful Learning Landscapes. Twenty-first Century Learning models will need to embrace a breadth of skills that allow children to succeed in a world of increasing uncertainty and change. Projections suggest that by 2050 over 70% of the worlds’ children will be living in urban areas and that most of these children – over 825 million – will reach adulthood without even the basic secondary skills required to meet the workplace of today and tomorrow.
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Announcing the QUILS™ (QUICK INTERACTIVE LANGUAGE SCREENER)
Funded by the Institute for Education Sciences with a grant to Roberta M. Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Jill deVilliers, Aquiles Iglesias, and Mary Wilson, Brooks Publishing has brought out our new language screener, developed to find children (ages 3 through 5) with potential language problems. As language is fundamental to children’s success in school and in life, we hope it will be adopted by schools to find children with potential language issues who might linger unnoticed in classrooms. It can be administered on any touchscreen tablet or computer and identifies children for referral. QUILS™ has a monolingual English version and a bilingual version for children learning both English and Spanish (the QUILS: ES). Stay tuned for our screener for 2-year-olds, Baby QUILS™!
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Check out Kathy’s latest book, Becoming Brilliant
Kathy’s latest book, co-authored with Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, PhD, was recently named one of New York Times Best Sellers. The full title of the work is “Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children.” Click below for more information!Click here to purchase
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Kathy's work appears in news publications around the world.
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Kids and screens
WHYY: Radio TimesMany parents are worried about how much time their children are spending on screens – for teens it averages around nine hours a day, for 8 to 12 years olds about six hours. And even kids are troubled by their usage — a Pew report found that 9 out of 10 teens said they were […]
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Are Sleep Regressions Real?
New York TimesFor many weeks, Lindsey Smith’s infant daughter slept well. She’d randomly wake up hungry in the middle of the night, as many infants do, but after nursing she’d doze right off again. The night before Smith returned to work, however, her then 4-month-old woke up wide-eyed at 1 a.m. and was impossible to console. For […]
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Laundromats are playing an unlikely role in the effort to shrink America’s literacy gap
QuartzSeven-year-old Emma McGee used to hate coming to the laundromat. It was boring, and seemed to take forever. In fact she would always ask—unsuccessfully—to stay home with her older brother, Aiden. But things have gotten more interesting since a play space appeared in the back corner of Lavanderia Express IV, a large laundromat nestled next […]
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Some of Kathy's books include:
User’s Manual for the Quick Interactive Language Screener™ (QUILS™)A measure of Vocabulary, Syntax, and Language Acquisition Skills in Young Children
Becoming Brilliant:What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children
A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool:Presenting the Evidence
Celebrate the Scribble:Appreciating Children's Art
Play = Learning:How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth
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Kathy is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she contributes articles to her Blog on a regular basis.