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Educational Technology

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Step Aside, 'Screen Time.' Make Room for 'Screen Purpose.'
Technology is simply another way to communicate, learn, and play. It shouldn't automatically be regarded as a threat. Whether technology helps or harms children largely depends on how it is used.
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Nov 17, 2015
U.S. News & World Report
Lindsay Daugherty

Parenting

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MIECHV Reauthorization: Recommendations from Research
Funding for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program was extended through fiscal year 2017, without policy changes. If Congress decides to make policy changes to MIECHV in the future, research on home visiting programs can inform recommendations.
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Apr 17, 2015
The RAND Blog
M. Rebecca Kilburn, Grace Evans
Early Childhood Education

q&a
Investing in Kids Can Yield High Returns: Q&A with Lynn A. Karoly
There is strong evidence of large potential economic returns to investing in high quality early childhood programs, but that doesn't mean that every program will generate equally large returns. Many programs likely have a “threshold” of quality and intensity that needs to be achieved in order to register positive returns.
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Apr 8, 2015
The Center for High Impact Philanthropy
Parenting

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Support for Implementing Home Visiting Under the Affordable Care Act
One groundbreaking provision of the Affordable Care Act is its funding for home visiting programs that match the parents of young children with trained specialists who provide information, social support, parental skill instruction, and more.
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Jan 8, 2014
The RAND Blog
Teryn Mattox, Sarah B. Hunter, et al.