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Doctoral student Jorge Cuartas presents his research before the Colombian House of Representatives

October 16, 2019

HGSE doctoral student Jorge Cuartas recently addressed the House of Representatives in Colombia as they consider a federal ban on corporal punishment. Jorge highlighted his own research showing the negative impacts of violence -- including harsh...

Recent article in Child Development highlights mechanisms for long-term benefits of early intervention

September 01, 2019

A recent study co-authored by SEED Lab members Dana McCoy and Katie Gonzalez shows that the long-term impacts of an early childhood professional development program for Head Start teachers can be partially explained by children's early gains in academic...

SEED Lab member Emily Hanno named as Djokovic Fellow

April 25, 2019

Congratulations to doctoral student Emily Hanno for being named as a Djokovic Science and Innovation Fellow at the Harvard Center on the Developing Child! Through this fellowship, Emily will explore questions related to early childhood teacher...

Research with Sharon Wolf shows longitudinal links between academic and non-academic skills

March 01, 2019

A new study co-authored by Dr. Sharon Wolf and Dr. McCoy in Developmental Science has found that Ghanaian children's skills in literacy, numeracy, executive function, and social-emotional development are inter-related and may serve to enhance one another...

New study co-authored by Jorge Cuartas shows links between Colombia’s civil conflict and the use of corporal punishment

February 15, 2019

New research published on Child Abuse & Neglect including SEED lab member Jorge Cuartas shows that household multidimensional poverty, municipality homicide rates, and the presence of FARC guerrillas predict a higher likelihood of parental use of corporal...

A new co-authored paper by doctoral student Marcus Waldman shows links between the timing of report card distribution and child abuse

December 17, 2018

New research published by a team of researchers including SEED Lab member Marcus Waldman has shown that a Friday report card release is associated with a four-fold spike in incidence rates of state-agency verified cases of physical abuse reports the...

A new study with Dr. Sharon Wolf shows gaps in parental investment and school readiness for low-income Ghanaian children

January 28, 2019

New work published in the January/February, 2019 issue of Child Development by Dr. Sharon Wolf (UPenn) and Dr. McCoy suggests that household wealth and parental education are both predictive of more positive school readiness skills for Ghanaian...

CREDI validation paper published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly

June 30, 2018

Together with researchers from 17 countries, Dr. McCoy has published a paper validating the world's first population-level tool for measuring the developmental status of infants and toddlers. The paper, which was recently released in Early Childhood...

New research shows disparities in the availability of children's learning opportunities worldwide

May 10, 2018

A new study led by Dr. McCoy and published in Children and Youth Services Review shows that nearly one-quarter of children living in low- and middle-income countries lack access to learning opportunities in and out of the home. Using data from more than...

The SEED and EASEL labs receive grant from the Harvard Lemann Brazil Research Fund

March 29, 2018

Drs. Dana McCoy and Stephanie Jones receive a grant from the Harvard Lemann Brazil Research Fund to support a new study of the EASEL lab's social-emotional learning "kernels" in early childhood settings in Brazil. Read more about the Lemann awardees here!

Dr. McCoy interviewed by Estadão newspaper

January 08, 2018

See Dr. McCoy's interview about early childhood education in the Estadão newspaper in São Paulo, Brazil.