Temple University professor Kathy Hirsh-Pasek presented on playful learning research to Philadelphia City Council

The authors argue for the cost-saving and outcomes-based promise of the Montessori education model for pre-K.

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Although seminal studies from the early 1960s suggested quality preschool can have lasting positive effects, agreement is lacking on the efficacy o...

Experts say important learning takes place outside the classroom but not all kids have equal access to what's called "playful learning." The pilot program Live and Learn is working to change that.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Angela Duckworth Phones in Focus duckwort@wharton.upenn.edu Over 20,000 Educators Share Insights on School Cell Phone Policies as Part of Landmark Research Initiative “Phones i...

Kathy Hisrh-Pasek and co-authors outline the potential risks that artificial intelligence poses to children's development.

Grok, OpenAI and others are sprinting toward our youngest citizens with products mimicking the human interactions that literally build the brain — potentially derailing them entirely.

Scientists who have shaped our understanding of clinical cognitive neuroscience, mental health, and racial biases are among the 12 recipients of the 2026 APS lifetime achievement awards.

On September 10, Senior Fellow Kathy Hirsh-Pasek will discuss the Active Playful Learning model with educators, policymakers, and education researchers.

In a new working paper, Kimberly Nesbitt and co-authors detail the findings from the first year of the Active Playful Learning pilot.

The administration is divesting from future generations. It will cost America dearly.

Some Americans hear claims of anti-Christian bias as a signal of white solidarity, according to a 2024 study.

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Karyn Allee and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek remind us of the importance of rest and play at all ages and stages of our lives.

Letting them take some responsibility for their choices is what prepares them for adult life.

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Disney gave fans something special this Christmas by sharing a clip from its upcoming live-action Snow White. The clip features Rachel Zegler performing “Waiting on a Wish,” a brand-new song written b...

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Decades of research on joint attention, coordinated joint engagement, and social contingency identify caregiver-child interaction in infancy as a foundation for language. These patterns of early behavioral synchrony contribute to the structure and connectivity of the brain in the temporoparietal regions typically associated with language skills. Thus, children attune to their communication partner and subsequently build cognitive skills directly relating to comprehension and production of language, literacy skills, and beyond. This has yielded marked interest in measuring this contingent, synchronous social behavior neurally. Neurological measures of early social interactions between caregiver and child have become a hotbed for research. In this paper, we review that research and suggest that these early neural couplings between adults and children lay the foundation for a broader cognitive system that includes attention, problem solving, and executive function skills. This review describes the role of behavioral synchrony in language development, asks what the relationship is between neural synchrony and language growth, and how neural synchrony may play a role in the development of a broader cognitive system founded in a socially-gated brain. We address the known neural correlates of these processes with an emphasis on work that examines the tight temporal contingency between communicative partners during these rich social interactions, with a focus on EEG and fNIRS and brief survey of MRI and MEG.

Some educators are spending too much time on phonics instruction in the early grades, experts warn.

Jonathan Haidt’s incredibly well-timed decision to surf on the wave of a moral panic about kids and social media has made him a false hero for many parents and educators. In my review, I noted that…

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This study extends the analytic approach conducted by Watts et al. (2018) to examine the long-term predictive validity of delay of gratification. Participants (n = 702; 83% White, 46% male) completed...

Critics say the curriculum overemphasizes Christianity. The board is expected to officially vote on whether to approve the materials later this week.

Some education leaders across Pennsylvania are sounding alarms as they prepare for a Trump administration that has the potential to dramatically change K-12 education across the country.