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  • “Beyond School Hours 2021” – Virtual Conference, Foundations, February 17-19, 2021

    Join Foundations, Inc.’s Beyond School Hours 2021 National Education Conference online and watch Kathy’s keynote speech on February 17, 2021!

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  • Placemaking Winner of the Real Play City Challenge!

    We’re excited that Playful Learning Landscapes was selected as one of the Placemaking Winners of the Real Play City Challenge based on the Urban Play Framework!

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  • “Finding Joy through Playful Learning” – Virtual Conference, February 3-4 & 9-10, 2021

    Join Playful Learning Landscapes Action Network, Playful Pittsburgh Collaborative, and Trying Together for a virtual conference bringing together educators, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss and share best practices to […]

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  • Kathy one of the new Governing Council Members of The Society for Research in Child Development!

    The Society for Research in Child Development  announced the results of our 2020 election.

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  • “Children need unstructured exploration and time to tackle problems that interest them” – Book Review, AAAS Science Blog Post

    Susan Engel’s exquisitely written book, “The Intellectual Lives of Children” (2021) demonstrates how #playful learning sparks curiosity, creativity and 21st century skills. It is the pedagogy for our time! Read […]

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  • “COVID-19 sparks an overdue discussion on education reform: An optimistic vision” Brookings Institute

    The situation is dire. American education is slipping: Only 35 percent of fourth grade students were at least proficient readers on the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress, a serious […]

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  • “Rebuilding America’s schools: The new secretary of education will need to prioritize both access and breadth of skills” – Brookings Institute

    We congratulate Miguel Cardona, Connecticut’s current education commissioner, on his nomination to serve as secretary of education under President-elect Biden. Following Senate confirmation, it will benefit children, teachers, and families […]

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  • “Good parenting critical in helping kids through pandemic” – CGTN

    Obstacle courses, scavenger hunts, and other possibilities to help the little ones during these challenging times… Kathy chatted with CGTN…

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  • “Kids and COVID isolation & stress: What parents need to know” – Aljazeera

    Experts voice concern over how children are relating to the world outside their homes during the pandemic, as well as the stress they are feeling from their parent’s COVID-related financial […]

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  • “Kids seriously impacted by pandemic may suffer developmentally, experts say” – The Denver Channel

    There’s growing concern among parents that the pandemic will impact development for their kids. “It hasn’t just been COVID, right? We’ve learned, you know, our youngest children have learned to […]

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  • “Childhood Without Other Children: A Generation Is Raised in Quarantine” – New York Times

    Covid-19 has meant the youngest children can’t go to birthday parties or play dates. Parents are keeping them out of day care. What is the long-term effect of the pandemic […]

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  • “Playful Learning: A New Path to Educational Report” – Brookings Institute Cafeteria Podcast

    Kathy and Helen Hadani talk about their Big Ideas paper in the Brookings Policy 2020 series titled, “A new path to education reform: Playful learning promotes 21st-century skills in schools […]

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  • “3 Top Takeaways from Playful Learning Playbook: A New Resource for the Serious Business of Play”

    In Early Learning Nation, Mark Swartz writes about the Playful Learning Playbook…

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  • “ ‘Why are we still at home?’ Fostering Children’s Questions During COVID19” – Child and Family Blog

    Kids miss out on a lot during a pandemic. Luckily, question-asking doesn’t need to be one of those things….

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  • “Does reopening schools lead to increased life expectancy? The data aren’t so simple” – Brookings Institute

    On November 12, 2020, the online, open-access journal of the American Medical Association published an article penned by the esteemed Dr. Dimitri Christakis and colleagues suggesting that school closings created […]

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  • The NEW Playful Learning Landscapes Playbook!

    On November 19, 2020, Playful Learning Playbook in Action introduced its new Playful Learning Playbook — A beautiful way to build playful communities and reduce inequality!

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  • “Mind Field: Play” – Early Learning Nation

    Early Learning Nation explores the world of early learning by connecting with advocates, community leaders, early learning professionals, parents and caretakers, national policymakers and scientists. In their new series, six […]

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  • A new path to education reform – The Brookings Institution: Big Ideas Policy Report

    The American education system is not preparing all children to thrive. Amidst a national movement to dismantle systemic racism, our schools risk propagating educational inequity by design.

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  • The Importance of Play – The Saracast: Conversations in Social Emotional Learning (Apple Podcast)

    How has the science of learning evolved, and have schools done enough to keep up? How does play promote executive functioning? How does the human brain depend on relationships for […]

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  • Addressing Inequity in Education, “Conscious Cities Festival 2020” – the Centre for Conscious Design

    On October 20, 2020, Kathy and other speakers addressed various issues and solutions inequity in educational institutions, pedagogy, and practices….

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  • “This video chat app that’s like Zoom for kids wants to make virtual babysitting the next big thing” – Business Insider, India

    If you’re familiar with Maxeme Tuchman’s background, you wouldn’t be surprised to hear she runs a company that promotes reading and education among children… Read More…

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  • The missing piece: Where is ‘education’ in the national conversation? – Brookings Blog

    In her latest Blog Post for the Brookings Institute, Kathy and co-authors comment, “The staggering impact of COVID-19 on American lives and the economy was understandably the central issue in […]

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  • “Why not all screen time is the same for children” – BBC

    Screens are a fixture in children’s lives from a young age, but giving them access to television, tablets or phones doesn’t always mean it will have a negative impact on […]

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  • The Saracast: Conversations in Social Emotional Learning

    Move This World (MTW), a leading provider of social emotional learning programs for PreK-12, is excited to announce the launch of the Move This World Audio Network introducing the podcast, The Saracast: Conversations […]

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  • QUILS featured in “Early Learning Distance Resources” – The Early Learning Innovation Network

    QUILS is featured in “Early Learning Distance Resources: 2020-2021 Educational Technology Resources” by the Early Learning Innovation Network!

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  • “21 educational toys and activities for elementary-age kids, according to experts” – Insider

    Learning doesn’t have to happen in a classroom, and in fact, the most valuable learning experiences take place far from the four walls of a classroom. Kids learn and retain […]

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  • “How Strange Bedfellows Can Save Science” – New America

    It sounds so simple: all we need to do is show people the science and evidence-based research for how to stay safe, stay healthy, save the environment, and more, and […]

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  • “Do STEM toys actually teach kids science and math?” – LiveScience

    With a rocky year of pandemic-related educational disruptions ahead, many parents are looking for ways to help their kids learn at home. Toys advertised as teaching STEM might seem like […]

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  • “Teachers tap into existing online project-based lessons” – School News Network

    There’s a group behind efforts to get existing educational lessons from local institutions in front of educators and students. Michigan Future, Inc. is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that collaborates with […]

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  • “The best STEM toys 2020” – LiveScience

    Many toys are labeled as “STEM toys,” with claims that they teach kids science, technology, engineering and math. But very few toys that hold these claims are actually studied. Some […]

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  • “Schools Strive for Screen Time Balance in a Complex Equation” – EdTech

    What’s the right balance between screen time and digital equity? Researchers and K-12 educators grapple with the complex landscape of educational technology and access. Amy Burroughs spoke to  four experts […]

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  • Best Life: “Avoiding the COVID-19 student slump” – WMC Action News 5

    Millions of kids nationwide are spending hours at home now completing lessons online at their own pace or in virtual class settings. But could this interruption in traditional learning lead […]

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  • “Why the way our children watch screens matters” – BBC

    Screen time for school-aged children decreases their ability to imagine the world, or the so-called ‘mental imagery’ skills. But as Melissa Hogenboom explores, we have the ability to help them […]

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  • “Online pre-K may be better than nothing” – The Ledger

    Canned vegetables aren’t as good as fresh vegetables. But they’re better than none. That’s the premise some experts share about the merits of online prekindergarten, although most agree in-person is […]

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  • “Baby Talk: Learning Your Baby’s Language with Communication and Play” – Lovevery, Apple Podcast

    Ever get the feeling like you are babbling more than your baby? It turns out that going gaga over your baby actually serves a purpose. It helps them with language […]

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  • “Avoiding the COVID Slump” – WGN9 Chicago

    A short piece on “Avoiding the COVID Slump” chalk full of tips for overworked, overtired parents… Watch Here….

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  • “Pandemic News: What You Need to Know” – ABC News Live

    Amy Robach spoke to Kathy on ABC News Live on May 7, 2020. Watch Here….  

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  • Part 3 of “Voices on the Future of Childhood: The Future of Play” – Sesame Workshop

    “During the current COVID-19 crisis, children’s play has necessarily evolved to accommodate school shutdowns, social distancing guidelines, and parents’ at-home work schedules. Parks and playgrounds are off-limits… Which of these […]

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  • “How to get those babies talking!” – Raising Good Humans Podcast

    On her podcast, Dr. Aliza Pressman spoke with Kathy  about conversations with babies, the music of language, and how it all helps with language development! Check it out….

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  • “Raising Kids During a Pandemic: 12 Tips for Parenting Young Kids During the Coronavirus Crisis” – 30Seconds

    Children and Screens has teamed up with some of the top experts in the fields of parenting, education and child psychology to bring you a series of helpful hints and […]

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  • “Early Education Is More Demanding Than Ever, and Experts Have Concerns” – NYTimes

    The approach, stress and rigidity that often accompanies modern lesson plans may cause young children to feel frustrated or disengaged. …The school routines of kindergarteners have changed… Over the 12 […]

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  • “Many parents are struggling with child care during coronavirus. Is asking for help allowed?” – The Lily (Washington Post)

    As families adjust to the new landscape of the pandemic — home — some are finding it impossible to go without outside help from their extended families, nannies or caregivers… […]

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  • “Is Quarantine Worse for an Only Child?” – NYTimes

    “Isolation might seem more damaging for kids without siblings. But it doesn’t have to be… Watching my 3-year-old become a geography expert over the last few weeks has taken my […]

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  • “A support guide for parents raising babies and toddlers through the coronavirus crisis” – QUARTZ

    “It is a well-established fact that babies’ brains develop at warp speed in the first three years of life, laying critical cognitive, emotional, and social foundations. But what happens when […]

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  • “The Ooh-and-Coo Duet of Babies’ Language Learning”- Early Learning Nation

    When a baby peers into the face of an adult making the kind of goofy faces and noises most of us make when looking at an infant, they’re doing more […]

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  • The Launch of Playful Learning Landscapes!!

    On Wednesday, February 26, the Center for Universal Education and the Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking at Brookings hosted an event introducing Playful Learning Landscapes, an interdisciplinary project aimed at […]

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  • “How play is making a comeback in Kindergarten classrooms” – NBC News

    “A Washington state district made an entire school just for kindergarteners where joy and play are the focus… On a sunny winter morning in Sara Stevens’ kindergarten classroom at Pathfinder […]

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  • “To the Stars and Beyond from a Tower of Blocks” – Early Learning Nation

    The building block has been such a fact of American childhood for so long, it’s easy to dismiss the humble little cube as irrelevant, particularly in light of fancy newer […]

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  • Some toddlers are chronically absent from preschool. A text message can help….

    Head Start, the childcare program designed more than half-a-century ago for low-income families in the US, has an unusual problem: It is both oversubscribed and under-attended. Created in 1965 as […]

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  • The best gift you can give your kids this holiday season is to put down your phone

    And as we start 2020, Quartz offers a resolution for all of us to put our phones down in front of the kids. Good advice… “Holidays can be a stressful […]

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  • The Key To Raising Brilliant Kids? Play A Game

    NPR

    We all want to raise smart, successful kids, so it’s tempting to play Mozart for our babies and run math drills for kindergartners. After all, we need to give them […]

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  • Why We Play

    WHYY: ThePulse

    You know what they say — all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. And science seems to confirm that statement, with findings that play is as important […]

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  • Pampers Unveils ‘Smart Diaper’ and There’s Already a Waiting List

    Thomas Net

    Ever since modern society has become obsessed with data, each week seems to bring a new invention that makes us wonder – do we really, actually need this? This time […]

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  • Early exposure to speech may shape autistic children’s language ability

    Spectrum News

    The more words autistic children hear as infants — and the more verbal interactions they have with their caregivers — the better their language skills at age 2, a new […]

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  • Kids and screens

    WHYY: Radio Times

    Many 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 […]

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  • Are Sleep Regressions Real?

    New York Times

    For 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 […]

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  • Laundromats are playing an unlikely role in the effort to shrink America’s literacy gap

    Quartz

    Seven-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, […]

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  • Parents see impact of screen time on babies, toddlers

    Good Morning America

    ABC News’ Diane Sawyer shares some of the findings of her six-month investigation into the effects of screen time on adults and children.

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  • Why You Keep Talking to Your Baby In An Annoying, High-Pitched Voice

    Yahoo Lifestyle

    Talking to your baby in an annoying, higher-pitched voice is not a symptom of parenthood slowly melting your brain. It’s a normal and scientifically backed way to communicate with infants utilized […]

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  • Experts say iPad screen time is bad for kids. Here’s why I’m ignoring them

    CNN Business

    If the judgy stares from strangers at restaurants aren’t enough to discourage you from giving your kids smartphones and tablets, the constant stream of news stories and studies on why […]

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  • 6 Tech Leaders on What They Fear the Most

    Time

    Techies pride themselves on their optimism. It couldn’t be any other way. After all, Silicon Valley was built on the idea that technology is a force for good. In the […]

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  • Talk to your Baby like you Talk to your Dog

    CNN

    This might sound strange, but I found talking to my dog much less stressful than talking to my babies. They had a lot in common: Both were non-verbal, both relied […]

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  • Playtime May Bolster Kids’ Mental Health

    The Atlantic

    “Play has become a four-letter word.” So says Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a psychologist at Temple University and one of the authors of a new paper about the importance of play in children’s […]

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  • It’s come to this: A checkup with the pediatrician may soon include a prescription for play

    Los Angeles Times

    Imagine a drug that could enhance a child’s creativity, critical thinking and resilience. Imagine that this drug were simple to make, safe to take, and could be had for free. […]

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  • In Sesame’s New Show, To Play is to Learn

    NPR

    Turn on your TV and surf the stuff meant for kids. I dare you. You’ll likely find a surfeit of fast action and fart jokes. And that’s what makes Esme & […]

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  • Raising Brilliant Kids – With Research to Back You up

    nprEd

    “Why are traffic lights red, yellow and green?” When a child asks you a question like this, you have a few options. You can shut her down with a “Just […]

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  • The Dangers of Distracted Parenting

    The Atlantic

    Smartphones have by now been implicated in so many crummy outcomes—car fatalities, sleep disturbances, empathy loss, relationship problems, failure to notice a clown on a unicycle—that it almost seems easier to list […]

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  • 9 Toys That Keep Kids Learning

    The New York Times

    What can you do to help your kids play happily this summer while still learning and building skills? Educational researchers have documented the phenomenon known as summer slide, in which many students […]

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  • Philly library initiative encourages kids to run, climb, and scale walls

    The Philadelphia Inquirer

    If children were to run, climb, slide, or scale a wall at a normal library, they would likely get annoyed glances from patrons before being hushed by a librarian and […]

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  • Transforming Philly into a giant playground, with benefits for kids and adults

    Billy Penn

    What if parents didn’t have to take kids to a playground to get in some fun activity — but instead, the play space came to them? That’s the idea behind […]

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  • How babies learn – and why robots can’t compete

    The Guardian

    Deb Roy and Rupal Patel pulled into their driveway on a fine July day in 2005 with the beaming smiles and sleep-deprived glow common to all first-time parents. Pausing in […]

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  • How to Help Kids Concentrate in the Era of Digital Distraction

    Offspring

    When I was a child in small-town West Virginia, there weren’t many options for entertainment after school or on weekends: I could walk to a friend’s house. I could watch […]

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  • Talking with—Not Just to—Kids Powers How They Learn Language

    Scientific American

    Children from the poorer strata of society begin life not only with material disadvantages but cognitive ones. Decades of research have confirmed this, including a famous 1995 finding by psychologists Betty Hart […]

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  • A New Push for Play-Based Learning: Why Districts Say It’s Leading to More Engaged Students, Collaborative Classmates … and Better Grades

    The 74

    To learn the word “the,” Kristen Bauter’s kindergartners used to sit at their desks with a worksheet and circle words scattered across the page. Now, the 5-year-olds stand at a […]

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  • Next stop, puzzles: learning on the go in Philadelphia

    The Financial Times

    A baby lab is installing games in urban spaces to teach problem-solving and creativity. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek has a vision: she would like to see children all over the world waiting […]

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  • Taking Playtime Seriously

    The New York Times

    Play is a universal, cross-cultural and necessary attribute of childhood, essential for development and essential for learning. Experts who study it say that play is intrinsic to children’s natures, but […]

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  • I Use My Phone While I Breastfeed. I’m Not a Bad Mother

    Time Magazine

    I often have my phone in my hand while breastfeeding my one-year-old daughter. This isn’t a confession, because I don’t feel guilty about it. Even though there are lots of […]

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  • Should Kids Have Cell Phones? Experts Pick Sides

    WalletHub

    Becoming too connected used to be an issue kids had with stuffed animals and pacifiers. Now it’s a matter of smart phones and tablets. And whether this is a positive […]

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  • An Oasis of Bipartisan Support: Why Early-Childhood Ed Matters

    Education Week

    The results are in. Seventy-eight percent of Trump supporters and 97% of Clinton supporters strongly endorse the need for universal access to affordable early childhood education (First Five Years Fund).  […]

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  • Educating the 21st century child

    BOLD

    Active learning, playful learning, flipped classrooms, team-based learning – this plethora of new terms highlights an effort designed to align the way we teach with the science of how children learn. […]

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  • How To Spark Learning Everywhere Kids Go — Starting With The Supermarket

    NPR.org

    Picture this: You’re in the supermarket with your hungry preschooler in tow. As you reach into the dairy case, you spot a sign with a friendly cartoon cow. It reads: […]

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  • Transforming Cities Into Learning Landscapes

    Stanford Social Innovation Review

    Cities can create outside-the-classroom learning opportunities for low-income children by encouraging communities to reimage everyday locations in their neighborhoods as places for playful learning. What if a bench were not […]

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  • Becoming Brilliant Podcast at Brookings Institute

    Brookings Institute

    In this podcast, Hirsh-Pasek and Golinkoff discuss ways to reimagine what successful learning looks like in a global world using six major skills that will help kids succeed beyond traditional […]

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  • Kathy launches book at the Brookings Institution

    The Brookings Institution

    Dr. Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek and Dr. Roberta Golinkoff’s book, Becoming Brilliant: What science tells us about raising successful children just launched at The Brookings Institution.  Click here to learn more about this achievement!

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  • How To Raise Brilliant Children, According To Science

    NPR

    “Why are traffic lights red, yellow and green?” When a child asks you a question like this, you have a few options. You can shut her down with a “Just […]

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  • Tips for Helping Youngsters Link Written Words to Language

    The New York Times

    Reading to very young children is crucial to help them eventually learn to read. But researchers studying how kids begin to understand that text conveys meaning differently than pictures — […]

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  • Child learning: flashy toys vs. nature

    WHYY Podcast

    Parents want to give their kids the best chance to learn and grow – even from a very young age. But it can be difficult to know if that ipad […]

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  • Traditional Toys May Beat Gadgets in Language Development

    The New York Times

    Baby laptops, baby cellphones, talking farms — these are the whirring, whiz-bang toys of the moment, many of them marketed as tools to encourage babies’ language skills. But in the […]

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  • Many Children Under 5 Are Left to Their Mobile Devices, Survey Finds

    The New York Times

    A small survey of parents in Philadelphia found that three-quarters of their children had been given tablets, smartphones or iPods of their own by age 4 and had used the […]

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  • Smart tips for parents about “educational” apps for kids

    CBS News

    Tens of thousands of supposedly educational apps aimed at young children are little more than “digital candy” that offer few benefits for youngsters, according to a new study. The research, […]

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  • Four ways to tell if an educational app will actually help your child learn

    The Joan Ganz Cooney Center

    Imagine someone telling you that a new technology would be available in five years that has the potential to revolutionize childhood and early education. But the downside is that you […]

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  • Quality of Words, Not Quantity, Is Crucial to Language Skills, Study Finds

    The New York Times

    It has been nearly 20 years since a landmark education study found that by age 3, children from low-income families have heard 30 million fewer words than more affluent children, […]

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  • Is E-Reading to Your Toddler Story Time, or Simply Screen Time?

    The New York Times

    Clifford the Big Red Dog looks fabulous on an iPad. He sounds good, too — tap the screen and hear him pant as a blue truck roars into the frame. […]

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  • Parents, Wired to Distraction

    The New York Times

    Every age of parenthood — and parenthood at every age — yields some discouraging metric, some new rating system on which parents can be judged and found wanting. We endlessly […]

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  • Can Toys Create Future Engineers?

    The New Yorker

    GoldieBlox kits aren’t like other construction toys. Instead of coming in primary colors, or in drab military tones, the kits are pastel: a platform the shade of a robin’s egg, […]

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  • Keeping Santa Alive in the Suburbs

    Philadelphia Magazine

    I had no idea that my daughter was watching me, that she’d followed me into the attic, that she was standing right there. I’d gone up last fall to wrap […]

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  • The building blocks of learning, literally

    Science Daily

    With the advent of tablet apps for children, parents may be tempted to forgo purchasing those blocks and puzzles that have been staples in children’s toy chests for centuries. A […]

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  • Imaginations More Active Despite Less Play Time, Study Shows

    Education Week

    Students today may have less time for free play, but new research suggests their imaginations have actually sharpened compared with children two decades ago. In an analysis published in May […]

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  • Toddlers to tweens: relearning how to play

    The Christian Science Monitor

    Children’s play is threatened, say experts who advise that kids – from toddlers to tweens – should be relearning how to play. Roughhousing and fantasy feed development. Havely Taylor knows […]

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  • Jump, skip, toss – children and parents get a lesson in the art and science of play

    The Baltimore Sun

    Thousands of children, from toddlers to 12-year-olds, did something yesterday that seems almost novel in the age of computers and digital games: They went outside and played. In the chilly […]

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  • VIDEO
    • “A new path to education reform: The next chapter on 21st century skills”
    • “The Hard Work of Play” – Avenues: The World School
    • The Inaugural Episode of “What Now?” with Kathy – Video Interview Series by Michigan Future Inc.
    • GoodSeed Movement Event Launch (Virtual Panel)
    • A Prescription for Play – Keynote Address, International Conference of Child Research Network Asia, Sept 2019
    • 3-Minute Animated Introduction to QUILS Screener
    • “Children and Screens: Summer of COVID-19–Tots and Tech?” Virtual Workshop, Children and Screens: Institute of Media and Child Development
    • “A Deep Dive into Curiosity and Creativity” – virtual panel in Slate School’s Education Idea Lab
    • “Navigating the New Normal: Parents Edition a Noggin Special with Common Sense Media” – Noggin
    • Netflix explores the mystery of Babies with a new Docu-Series!
    • Launch of Playful Learning Landscapes
    • Urban Thinkscape Video by WHYY
    • HMH Early Learning
    • Good Morning America
    • Conversations on the Future of Learning
    • The Today Show
    • The View
    • 20/20
    • Discovery Channel ‘Brain Box’
    • ABC News
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