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May 26, 2021

In this episode, we speak with Dr Meghan McCormick, Research Associate at MDRC and lead researcher on Boston’s Public Pre-Kindergarten Project. Dr McCormick has extensive research experience examining the roles of the home, school and neighborhood contexts on children’s development. Today she focuses...


May 26, 2021

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Natalie Brito, an Associate Professor at New York University, about the early development of self-regulation. Dr Brito is a developmental psychologist who examines how early social and cultural contexts shape the trajectory of neurocognitive development. In this discussion, Dr Brito...


May 26, 2021

In this episode, Michelle and Erin discuss rigorous quantitative research examining short and long term effects of early child care on children’s social and cognitive development. In our discussion, we delve into depth on the National Institutes of Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth...


May 11, 2021

Welcome to Parenting Understood! A collaboration between a practitioner, Michelle Tangeman, and researcher, Erin O’Connor, which provides research and objective, evidence based information on parenting and child development allowing parents to become critical consumers of the plethora of information in media...