This article systematically reviews what is known empirically about the association between
executive function and student achievement in both reading and math and critically …

Children's ability to direct their attention and behavior to learning tasks provides a
foundation for healthy social and academic development in early schooling. Although an …

The development of early childhood self-regulation is often considered an early life marker
for later life successes. Yet little longitudinal research has evaluated whether there are …

We examined the age of onset, over-time dynamics, and mechanisms underlying science
achievement gaps in US elementary and middle schools. To do so, we estimated multilevel …

Schools are an important context for children's social and emotional development. In
classrooms and other school settings, children and adolescents need to have skills such as …

Children's behavioral self-regulation and executive function (EF; including attentional or
cognitive flexibility, working memory, and inhibitory control) are strong predictors of …

Publicly funded prekindergarten programs have achieved small‐to‐large impacts on
children's cognitive outcomes. The current study examined the impact of a prekindergarten …

Children's skill levels in language, mathematics, literacy, self-regulation, and social–
emotional adjustment at kindergarten entry are believed to play an important role in …

Executive summary This report comes at a time when the Australian economy is reeling
under the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. More than at any other time, young Australians …

Research predicting academic achievement from early academic, attention, and
socioemotional skills has largely focused on elementary school outcomes and rarely …