Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Primary school student Mia (7) reads a book with a retired teacher and volunteer, Magda Rakytiakova (70), in an empty school, closed during a one-day strike by local teachers seeking higher salaries and better work conditions, in Bratislava September 13, 2012. Mia, along with other children whose parents were unable to take care of them during the strike on Wednesday, were placed in the care of volunteers who offered their services to take care of them. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa (SLOVAKIA - Tags: EDUCATION CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E89D1EIB01

Back to school 2019: A lesson plan from the science of learning

Molly Scott and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Monday, September 16, 2019

A four year-old boy plays at the Kathinka-Platzhoff-Stiftung Kindergarten (Kathinka-Platzhoff-foundation kindergarden) in Hanau, 30km (18 miles) south of Frankfurt, July 16, 2013. From August 1, 2013, all children in Germany between the age of 1 and 3 will have a legal entitlement to a place at a kindergarten. The Kindergarten of the Kathinka-Platzhoff-Stiftung is one of few which hosts children between the age of six month and six years. Picture taken July 16. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY EDUCATION) - BM2E97G14ZD01

School’s out: Block out time for spatial learning

Corinne Bower, Lien Vu, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

A general view shows the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Border Patrol station facilities in Clint, Texas, U.S., June 25, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez - RC1A2B8E7790

Neglect of children at the border has long-term consequences

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Virginia Rauh

Friday, June 28, 2019

Elementary school children share an electronic tablet on the first day of class in the new school year in Nice, September 3, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (FRANCE - Tags: EDUCATION) - PM1E99310R201

Screen time for children: Good, bad, or it depends?

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Natalie Evans, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

A customer looks at toys at the JoueClub Contesso shop in Nice, France, November 28, 2018. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard - RC128A7F13C0

The science of toys: A guide for the perplexed shopper

Brenna Hassinger-Das, Jennifer M. Zosh, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Monday, December 10, 2018

Students sit for a university entrance examination at a lecture hall in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain, June 16, 2015. Students in Spain must pass the exam after completing secondary school in order to gain access to university. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo - GF10000129149

Beyond the midterms: Helping students overcome the impact of No Child Left Behind

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Laurence Steinberg

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Children play with soap bubbles created by a street performer at Rizal park in Luneta, metro Manila, Philippines May 16, 2018. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC19387EB200

A prescription for play

Michael Yogman and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

A Syrian refugee girl who was briefly separated from her parents cries as she walks through a rainstorm towards Greece's border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015. Thousands of refugees and migrants, including many families with young children, have been left soaked after spending the night sleeping in the open in torrential rain on the Greek-Macedonian border. About 7,000 people waited in the mud of an open field near the northern Greek village of Idomeni to cross the border, with more arriving in trains, buses and taxis, as Macedonian police has imposed rationing in the flow of refugees. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis - S1BEUGOKOIAA

The enormous cost of toxic stress: Repairing damage to refugee and separated children

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Monday, July 9, 2018

Students use computers in the technology lab at the Headstart private school in Pakistan

The New Humanism: Technology should enhance, not replace, human interactions

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Molly Schlesinger, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Esther Care

Monday, June 11, 2018

A four year-old boy plays with building blocks

Learning about learning: Meaning matters

Andres S. Bustamante and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Wednesday, May 30, 2018