This Social Policy Report considers the importance of young children's emotional
development for their school readiness, suggesting that social scientists can provide policy …

A recent and compelling study entitled Neurons to Neighborhoods, conducted by the Board
on Children, Youth, and Families of the Institute of Medicine, calls attention to the importance …

Recognizing that what, how, and how much children learn in school depends in large part
on the social and emotional competence they developed as preschoolers, this monograph …

This short-term longitudinal study examined whether emotion regulation and emotion
understanding made unique contributions towards at-risk preschoolers' classroom …

Social and emotional skills facilitate school readiness, yet evaluations of preschool
programs typically focus on the cognitive benefits of early education and rarely examine the …

The early years of life present a unique opportunity to lay the foundation for healthy
development. It is a time of great growth and of vulnerability. Research on early childhood …

Research over the past few decades has highlighted the importance of social and emotional
competence in preschool children on later academic, social, and psychological outcomes …

The overall issue of assessment during early childhood, and its relation to school readiness
and other decisions, is currently widely debated. Expanding early childhood education and …

This chapter discusses emotional competence in two domains (emotion regulation and
emotion knowledge) and then considers research findings on whether skills such as …

This paper frames the subject of this special issue—how the field currently measures social
and emotional development in early childhood. We first describe the relationship of social …