The Center for Research on Culture, Education, and Development represents a coordinated effort to create a scholarly community of national significance. We have assembled leading scholars from diverse scientific disciplines (e.g., economics, education, sociology, media studies, public policy, community psychology, developmental psychology, and social psychology) all of whom provide expertise across contexts, developmental stages, and research methodologies. Center members have published highly acclaimed work on infant and pre-schoolers’ learning, language, and cognitive development; children and adolescents’ school performance, academic achievement, peer relations, and concepts of self; the roles of families, schools, peers, media, workplace, social policies, and culture on the developmental trajectories of young children and youth; and have extensive experience working within numerous schools in New York City and school systems across the country.

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