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child development

child development

PACT Zoom

Parents and Children Together continues to make an impact during pandemic

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$6.3 million grant will fund video library of moms and babies at play

Four graphs charting the development of four infants on a development task

Baby brains help them figure it out before they try it out

painted hands raised

Preschool program helps boost skills necessary for academic achievement

Copenhagen

New study abroad opportunities ideal for health, human development majors

Jennie Noll

Grant creates first national center for child maltreatment studies at Penn State

Is it Well with the Children Lecture

Promoting child well-being to be topic of upcoming lecture

Daniel Max Crowley

Crowley to present at Federal Reserve meeting on economic future of children

Children playing with wooden train. Toddler kid and baby play with blocks, trains and cars. Educational toys for preschool and kindergarten child. Boy and girl build toy railroad at home or daycare.

Nancy Eisenberg to speak on prosocial behavior in children

Bennett Lecture in Prevention Science 2016

Bennett Lecture to highlight rural drug prevention programs

children heads together

Early prosocial behavior good predictor of kids' future

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Harrisburg Preschool Program improves standardized test performance

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Participation in preschool program substantially affects achievement

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Research-based program enhances impact of Head Start on school skills