Cognitive skills and experiences like classroom-based play in kindergarten lead to participation in extracurricular activities in 8th grade among children growing up in poverty, finds a new study.

Megan McClelland is the Early Childhood Research Core Director at Oregon State University's Hallie Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families. She is lead author of a study that found the key to ...

This longitudinal study investigated the relative contributions of infant temperament, maternal sensitivity, and psychosocial risk to individual differences in preschool children's cognitive ...

Last Friday, Courtney Politis was preparing for her daughter’s first birthday party when another parent from her child’s school sent her photos of at least three students from her daughter’s class ...