NCCF: The National Center for Children and Families

NCCF Co-Director Joins the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education Task Force
NCCF Co-director Sharon Lynn Kagan has joined a new task force of national policy experts in launching the highly publicized “Broader, Bolder Approach to Education” campaign. The movement hopes to end the current cycle of reform efforts that have achieved little in the way of education and child development gains for those facing economic disadvantage and low student achievement. The Task Force’s framework points to the many flaws in the approach of the current No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. Dr. Kagan is a member of the task force and helped to draft the campaign statement, both of which have caused great debate among the education policy community and received national recognition in the NY Times, the Washington Post and other media. View the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education website.

Mothers Don't Have the Monopoly
In a Newsday op-ed, Anne Martin, senior research scientist, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, NCCF co-director, discuss research showing that men can be capable and effective caregivers. Click here to read the article.

NCCF Co-director Edits Volume on Children and Electronic Media
NCCF co-director Jeanne Brooks-Gunn recently edited an exciting new volume of The Future of Children journal entitled, “Children and Electronic Media,” published by The Brookings Institution and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. This specific volume examines the best available evidence on whether and how exposure to different media forms is linked to child well-being. Click here to view the full publication with a forward written by Dr. Brooks-Gunn Brooke and another collaborator. Click here to view an executive summary presenting many of the key findings and implications of the research.

NCCF Graduate Research Fellow Wins International Peace Scholarship
NCCF graduate research fellow Alejandra Cortazar Valdes recently won the International Peace Scholarship on behalf of the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) for selected women from other countries for graduate study in the United States and Canada. Members of P.E.O. believe that education is fundamental to world peace and understanding.