This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

Educators and researchers are increasingly interested in evaluating and promoting socio-
emotional learning (SEL) beginning in early childhood (Newman & Dusunbury in 2015; …

This unique and ground-breaking book is the result of 15 years research and synthesises
over 800 meta-analyses on the influences on achievement in school-aged students. It builds …

Such diverse thinkers as Lao-Tze, Confucius, and US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
have all pointed out that we need to be able to tell the difference between real and assumed …

This study investigated the effect of a social and emotional learning skills curriculum, the
You Can Do It! Early Childhood Education Program (YCDI), on the social-emotional …

A number of authors have investigated the impact of early childhood education and care
programs on the development of children. Often they have focused on the effects on children …

Background/Context There is much current interest in the impact of early childhood
education programs on preschoolers and, in particular, on the magnitude of cognitive and …

Early childhood education is at the nexus of basic developmental science, policy research
and analysis, and the applied disciplines of education and prevention science. The field has …

This paper reports the results from a randomized clinical trial evaluating an adaptation of the
Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies curriculum (PATHS) for preschool-age children in …

Considers the potential consequences of not investing additional resources in children's
lives, the range of early intervention programs, the demonstrated benefits of interventions …