Michelle A Hurst, Naomi Polinsky, C. Haden, S. Levine, D. Uttal
{"title":"Leveraging Research on Informal Learning to Inform Policy on Promoting Early STEM","authors":"Michelle A Hurst, Naomi Polinsky, C. Haden, S. Levine, D. Uttal","doi":"10.1002/sop2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sop2.5","url":null,"abstract":"In recent decades, educators and policymakers in the United States have increased their focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) learning opportunities both in school and in informal learning environments outside of school. Informal STEM learning can take place in varied settings and involves a variety of STEM domains (e.g., engaging in engineering practices in a construction exhibit at a museum; talking about math during book reading at home). Here we provide a selective review of the literature on informal STEM learning to illustrate how these educational experiences are crucial for efforts to increase early STEM learning even before children reach school age. Leveraging cognitive and learning science research to inform policy, we make three recommendations to advance the impact of informal STEM learning: 1) integrate cognitive and learning science–based learning practices into informal learning contexts, 2) increase accessibility and diversity of informal STEM experiences, and 3) create explicit connections and coherence between formal and informal STEM learning opportunities in early childhood education.","PeriodicalId":74823,"journal":{"name":"Social policy report","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/sop2.5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44077537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social policy reportPub Date : 2019-08-01Epub Date: 2019-10-04DOI: 10.1002/sop2.4
Bradley Hardy, Heather D Hill, Jennie Romich
{"title":"Strengthening Social Programs to Promote Economic Stability during Childhood.","authors":"Bradley Hardy, Heather D Hill, Jennie Romich","doi":"10.1002/sop2.4","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sop2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Income level is well established as a key macro context for child development, and a vast literature indicates that higher income during childhood promotes development in every domain (e.g. Akee, Copeland, Keeler, Angold, & Costello, 2010; Case & Paxson, 2011; G. B. Dahl & Lochner, 2012; G. J. Duncan, Magnuson, Kalil, & Ziol-Guest, 2012; G. J. Duncan, Yeung, Brooks-Gunn, & Smith, 2006; Ziol-Guest, Duncan, & Kalil, 2009). This evidence frequently provides both substantive and rhetorical basis for the creation and design of income support policies and early childhood education programs (National Academies of Sciences, 2019).","PeriodicalId":74823,"journal":{"name":"Social policy report","volume":"32 2","pages":"1-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/sop2.4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38036234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fran C. Blumberg, K. Deater-Deckard, Sandra L. Calvert, Rachel M. Flynn, C. S. Green, David H. Arnold, P. J. Brooks
{"title":"Digital Games as a Context for Children's Cognitive Development: Research Recommendations and Policy Considerations","authors":"Fran C. Blumberg, K. Deater-Deckard, Sandra L. Calvert, Rachel M. Flynn, C. S. Green, David H. Arnold, P. J. Brooks","doi":"10.1002/SOP2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/SOP2.3","url":null,"abstract":"We document the need to examine digital game play and app use as a context for cognitive development, particularly during middle childhood. We highlight this developmental period as 6through 12year olds comprise a large swath of the preadult population that plays and uses these media forms. Surprisingly, this age range remains understudied with regard to the impact of their interactive media use as compared to young children and adolescents. This gap in knowledge about middle childhood may reflect strong and widely held concerns about the effects of digital games and apps before and after this period. These concerns include concurrent and subsequent influences of game use on very young children’s and adolescents’ cognitive and socioemotional functioning. We highlight here what is currently known about the impact of media on young children and adolescents and what is not known about this impact in middle childhood. We then offer recommendations for the types of research that developmental scientists can undertake to examine the efficacy of digital games within the rapidly changing media ecology in which children live. We conclude with a discussion of media policies that we believe can help children benefit from their media use. Our hope is that this review will foster greater investigation of the cognitive socialization, as raised over 20 years ago by developmental psychologist and early games researcher Patricia Greenfield, that digital games serve during the middle childhood period, and childhood more generally.","PeriodicalId":74823,"journal":{"name":"Social policy report","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/SOP2.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45802118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephanie M. Reich, Kristin S Hoeft, Guadalupe Díaz, Wendy Ochoa, Amy Gaona
{"title":"Disparities in the Quality of Pediatric Dental Care: New Research and Needed Changes","authors":"Stephanie M. Reich, Kristin S Hoeft, Guadalupe Díaz, Wendy Ochoa, Amy Gaona","doi":"10.1002/SOP2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/SOP2.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74823,"journal":{"name":"Social policy report","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/SOP2.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45498912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying a Community Violence Framework to Understand the Impact of Immigration Enforcement Threat on Latino Children","authors":"R. G. Barajas-Gonzalez, Cecilia Ayón, F. Torres","doi":"10.1002/SOP2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/SOP2.1","url":null,"abstract":"Heeding the call put out by the New England Journal of Medicine (2017), we utilize an ecological–transactional model as a conceptual framework for understanding existing literature and for guiding future research on immigration enforcement threat and Latino child development. Using the World Health Organization’s definition of violence, we draw on literature from psychology, medicine, social work, and developmental psychology to outline how the antiimmigrant climate in the United States and the threat of immigration enforcement practices in everyday spaces are experienced by some Latino children as psychological violence. Researchers, teachers, and practitioners are encouraged to be aware of how uncertainty and threat regarding familial safety adversely impacts the lives of Latino children in immigrant households, especially in charged, antiimmigrant climates. Corresponding author: R. Gabriela Barajas-Gonzalez (ritagabriela.barajas-gonzalez@nyumc.org) Author note: We thank the many colleagues and reviewers who provided thoughtful insights and editing to this manuscript. We also thank the hundreds of children, families, health care and education providers who participated in the studies cited in this review. Social Policy Report Volume 31, Number 3 | 2018 ISSN 1075-7031 Social Policy Report is published four times a year by the Society for Research in Child Development.","PeriodicalId":74823,"journal":{"name":"Social policy report","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/SOP2.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44106287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social policy reportPub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.1002/J.2379-3988.2018.TB00028.X
H. Romo, K. Thomas, Eugene E. García
{"title":"Changing Demographics of Dual Language Learners and English Learners: Implications for School Success","authors":"H. Romo, K. Thomas, Eugene E. García","doi":"10.1002/J.2379-3988.2018.TB00028.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/J.2379-3988.2018.TB00028.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74823,"journal":{"name":"Social policy report","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/J.2379-3988.2018.TB00028.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44051662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social policy reportPub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1002/J.2379-3988.2016.TB00086.X
E. Gershoff, Sarah A. Font
{"title":"Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools: Prevalence, Disparities in Use, and Status in State and Federal Policy.","authors":"E. Gershoff, Sarah A. Font","doi":"10.1002/J.2379-3988.2016.TB00086.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/J.2379-3988.2016.TB00086.X","url":null,"abstract":"School corporal punishment is currently legal in 19 states, and over 160,000 children in these states are subject to corporal punishment in schools each year. Given that the use of school corporal punishment is heavily concentrated in Southern states, and that the federal government has not included corporal punishment in its recent initiatives about improving school discipline, public knowledge of this issue is limited. The aim of this policy report is to fill the gap in knowledge about school corporal punishment by describing the prevalence and geographic dispersion of corporal punishment in U.S. public schools and by assessing the extent to which schools disproportionately apply corporal punishment to children who are Black, to boys, and to children with disabilities. This policy report is the first-ever effort to describe the prevalence of and disparities in the use of school corporal punishment at the school and school-district levels. We end the report by summarizing sources of concern about school corporal punishment, reviewing state policies related to school corporal punishment, and discussing the future of school corporal punishment in state and federal policy.","PeriodicalId":74823,"journal":{"name":"Social policy report","volume":"255 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/J.2379-3988.2016.TB00086.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50732319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools: Prevalence, Disparities in Use, and Status in State and Federal Policy.","authors":"Elizabeth T Gershoff, Sarah A Font","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>School corporal punishment is currently legal in 19 states, and over 160,000 children in these states are subject to corporal punishment in schools each year. Given that the use of school corporal punishment is heavily concentrated in Southern states, and that the federal government has not included corporal punishment in its recent initiatives about improving school discipline, public knowledge of this issue is limited. The aim of this policy report is to fill the gap in knowledge about school corporal punishment by describing the prevalence and geographic dispersion of corporal punishment in U.S. public schools and by assessing the extent to which schools disproportionately apply corporal punishment to children who are Black, to boys, and to children with disabilities. This policy report is the first-ever effort to describe the prevalence of and disparities in the use of school corporal punishment at the school and school-district levels. We end the report by summarizing sources of concern about school corporal punishment, reviewing state policies related to school corporal punishment, and discussing the future of school corporal punishment in state and federal policy.</p>","PeriodicalId":74823,"journal":{"name":"Social policy report","volume":"30 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5766273/pdf/nihms862245.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35736677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social policy reportPub Date : 2012-01-01Epub Date: 2012-09-01DOI: 10.1002/j.2379-3988.2012.tb00072.x
Lawrence Aber, Pamela Morris, Cybele Raver
{"title":"Children, Families and Poverty: Definitions, Trends, Emerging Science and Implications for Policy.","authors":"Lawrence Aber, Pamela Morris, Cybele Raver","doi":"10.1002/j.2379-3988.2012.tb00072.x","DOIUrl":"10.1002/j.2379-3988.2012.tb00072.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Now, more than ever, it is crucial to address the topic of children and poverty in the U.S., given current scientific knowledge about poverty's influence on children and effective strategies to mitigate its negative impact. In this report, we summarize the best available information on definitions and trends in child poverty, policy responses to child poverty and the impact of poverty on children's health and development. Research suggests that various factors exert upward and downward pressure on child poverty rates. Upward pressure is exerted by declining work rates for men, stagnant wages for low-wage workers, increasing rates of children raised in female-headed households, and growing gaps in educational attainment. Downward pressure is exerted by the U.S. system of antipoverty policies and programs, which appears to be cutting \"pre-transfer\" poverty rates by more than 50%. Nonetheless, child poverty rates in the United States are high by both historical and international comparison. We then review the emerging science on biological and ecological processes by which poverty affects child development and key findings regarding the efficacy of comprehensive strategies to reduce poverty and to promote the human capital development of poor children. In the final section, we reflect on implications for moving forward in science and policy.</p>","PeriodicalId":74823,"journal":{"name":"Social policy report","volume":"26 3","pages":"1-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7100145/pdf/nihms-1565905.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37784027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}