The World Bank drives early childhood development globally through financing, policy, and partnerships to boost health, ...

The first five years of life are a period of rapid brain and biological development that set the stage for lifelong health and learning. These early years are thus a key window for proactively ...

The COVID-19 Pandemic has spawned multiple concurrent crises (public health, economic, and leadership), exacerbated by systemic racism. In early March, tens of millions of residents responded ...

The use of science to inform learning and development can have profound results for children, particularly those in their first few years of life. So say the experts—among them Randa Grob-Zakhary, a ...

Kulick: The Pocono Mountains United Way has provided 36,815 screenings for children in Monroe County since 2004.

Many young children invent imaginary companions (IC) in the early years, also known as imaginary friends. Is having an IC ...

While COVID has meaningfully impacted our K-12 and higher education systems in the U.S., the early years have arguably been even more challenged. Child care supply has been decimated and parents of ...

The idea that the first three years of a child’s life are more important than other phases is increasingly dominant in policy and media circles. John Bruer, president of the US James S McDonnell ...

This course was designed to help World Bank staff, development partners and clients understand the importance of investing early, since a child’s earliest years present a window of opportunity to ...

What does Blackness mean to you? My Black is colorful, quick-witted, dynamic, innovative and brilliant. My Blackness meant I grew up getting my hair straightened with a hot comb that would burn the ...