“As trusted authorities in child health and development, pediatric providers must now complement the early identification of developmental concerns with a greater focus on those interventions and community investments that reduce external threats to healthy brain growth. To this end, AAP [American Academy of Pediatrics] endorses a developing leadership role for the entire pediatric community—one [...]
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Posted in Health, Quotes on March 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Pediatrician Group Adopts Policy to Mitigate Toxic Stress
Posted in Health, Research on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Brain research tells us that children’s early experiences affect the physical architecture of the brain. Playful, loving, language-rich interactions between parents or caregivers and young children have a positive impact on the wiring of the young brain, laying the foundation for literacy and other healthy development. Conversely, toxic stress – stress so unrelenting the body [...]
Children’s Health and the Achievement Gap
Posted in Health, Research on January 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
“Healthier students are better learners.” This was the message that Charles E. Basch, a professor education at Teachers College, Columbia University, delivered at a recent Boston Public Schools forum on health and the achievement gap. Basch, the author of numerous articleson the relationship between health and educational achievement, was the keynote speaker at the event [...]
MA Statewide Early Childhood Summit Held
Posted in Dept. of Early Education and Care, Health on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When Dr. Gregory Hagan took over as president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics last year, he had an idea. Convene an early childhood summit to help propel an agenda for young children. The chapter, under the previous president, had already made a commitment to promote early education and early childhood [...]
MA Summit on Early Childhood Convenes Nov. 16
Posted in Health, Infants and toddlers, Language development, Pre-kindergarten on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Dr. Gregory Hagan, president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (MCAAP), asks the pediatric residents he trains to read research about the effectiveness of high-quality early education and the 10-16% return on investment it generates. “Their jaws drop,” Dr. Hagan told me in an interview last year. “If we want outcomes [...]
Economist Rolnick and the “High-Return Children”
Posted in Business and economy, Health, Research on May 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Consider this. The stock market, on average in the post-World War II era, has produced a 5.8% annual rate of return. High-quality early education yields a 16% rate of return. That’s a powerful reason to invest public dollars in young children, University of Minnesota economist Arthur Rolnick recently told the hundreds of early educators, children’s [...]
High-Quality Early Education Linked to Long-Term Health
Posted in Health, Research on February 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A new study from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health finds that low-income children who participated in high-quality early education had better health and healthier behaviors as young adults. Researchers looked at data from North Carolina’s Abecedarian Project, one of three “gold standard” studies of the impact of high-quality early education on low-income children. [...]
Building on “From Neurons to Neighborhoods”
Posted in Health, Research on December 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A decade has passed since the publication of “From Neurons to Neighborhoods,” a landmark study from the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine that used emerging brain research to present a complex, nuanced portrait of the relationship between nature and nurture in children’s development. Subtitled “The Science of Early Childhood,” it detailed how much [...]
On the Record with Dr. Gregory Hagan, President of MA Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
Posted in Health on December 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
CAMBRIDGE — I met with Dr. Gregory Hagan, president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, one afternoon just after he returned from a meeting with a “very high-powered group” seeking ways to advance the cause of children’s health. “I was struck,” Hagan told me, “that there was no one from behavioral [...]
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