NCCF graduate research fellow Anna Johnson won a "best poster" award at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference for her poster entitled, "Who uses child care subsidies? Comparing recipients to eligible non-recipients on family characteristics and child care preferences." Johnson, one of three best poster winners, presented detailed findings from one of her dissertation research questions. APPAM seeks to reward and encourage excellence in research by new/emerging scholars as represented among the poster sessions delivered at the conference.
NCCF co-director Jeanne Brooks-Gunn has been elected into membership at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies. Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. The IOM is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to providing unbiased, evidence based information and advice to the nation on matters of biomedical science, medicine and health. Click here for more information.
NCCF Co-director Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and colleagues Ron Haskins and Christina Paxson recently published a new Future of Children (FOC) Policy Brief entitled, Social Science Rising: A Tale of Evidence Shaping Public Policy. The brief discusses how policy makers are using social science evidence to identify and support successful public programs, specifically citing the Obama administration’s use of social science evaluations of home-visiting programs to improve parenting and reduce child maltreatment.
NCCF Co-director Sharon Lynn Kagan discusses the administration's new $87 billion higher education bill in a recent New York Times article "Initiative Focuses on Early Learning Programs," by Sam Dillon. The article also makes reference to Dr. Kagan's recent paper about the history of the American early care and education (ECE) system and the role of the federal government in creating an equitable system.
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