Tag: Nebraska Center for Research on Children Youth Families and Schools

Closing Achievement Gap for Kids

Susan Sheridan (center) with researchers Lisa Knoche, Iheoma Iruka, Mark DeKraai, Jim Bovaird and Greg Welch Young children who experience less stimulating environments than their peers quickly fall behind academically and socially. UNL is leading a national research initiative to determine what families, schools, communities and the nation can do to give all children the […]

Enhancing Early Childhood Development

UNL is leveraging its expertise in early childhood education to improve developmental outcomes for the nation’s youngest members. A team in UNL’s Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools is collaborating with Early Head Start programs to implement the Getting Ready intervention. Developed at UNL in 2004, Getting Ready is a research-based […]