Expanding knowledge of brain and child development, along with growing evidence regarding effective interventions to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families, led the National Academies of ...

Raising children is simultaneously both an immensely rewarding journey and a challenging experience. Parents will be pushed in new ways they have never faced before. As many will know, learning to ...

Early-childhood and elementary school programs reflect a diverse set of commitments about what children ought to learn, and about how they ought to do so. Some focus on academic preparation and ...

Development can be thought of as a journey. The journey begins at conception with a genetic roadmap to guide the way. As this journey continues through predictable stages of birth, infancy, childhood, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract When children think of objects as organized into collections (e. g., forest, army) they become better able to solve certain problems than when ...

Evidence for the development of principles guiding causal inferences was critically reviewed. The principles examined included: (1) the logical requirements suggested by Hume, that is, the temporal ...