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Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

Stanley and Debra Lefkowitz Faculty Fellow, Department of Psychology, Temple University

Words That Matter

By Leticia Bode, Ceren Budak, Jonathan M. Ladd, Frank Newport, Josh Pasek, Lisa O. Singh, Stuart N. Soroka, and Michael W. Traugott

2020

A general view of the city of Birmingham, Alabama, August 9, 2011. Alabama's Jefferson County submitted a second offer to creditors in an attempt to settle its $3.14 billion sewer bond debt, the county commission president said on August 8, 2011. Commissioner David Carrington gave no details of the contents of the latest offer. Jefferson County is struggling to avoid what would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. History. REUTERS/Marvin Gentry (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

Reopening America: The view from Birmingham, Alabama

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Helen and Tyler McClenahan help their kids with school work at home during Washington Governor's "stay home, stay healthy" initiative as efforts continue to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Seattle, Washington, U.S. March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Jason Redmond

Education Plus Development

Where’s the rallying cry? America’s children are unequally prepared to absorb the impacts of COVID-19

Lisa A. Gennetian and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

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

Future Development

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

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Monday, July 9, 2018

Kids play outside of their home in the West Washington neighborhood in South Bend, Indiana, U.S., June 26, 2019. Picture taken June 26, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Lott - RC1BE196F320

Education Plus Development

Moving on up: More than relocation as a path out of child poverty

Lisa A. Gennetian and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Thursday, October 17, 2019

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

Education Plus Development

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

Molly Scott and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Monday, September 16, 2019

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

Education Plus Development

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

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Laurence Steinberg

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Children reading together

Education Plus Development

Progress on social mobility takes more than two viewpoints

Lisa A. Gennetian, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Hirokazu Yoshikawa

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

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

Education Plus Development

A prescription for play

Michael Yogman and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Stories in the Stacks with Summer: Preschool kids, with their grownups, are invited to join for an hour of storytime, crafts and music, 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday, March 5, Keizer Community Library, 980 Chemawa Road NE. Free. https://bit.ly/2TkCO1h.8639940a178c4f6899bc119b19674b30

Education Plus Development

Are our preschool teachers worth more than they were two months ago?

Andres S. Bustamante and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Monday, April 13, 2020

A woman marks her ballot with her child looking on in the presidential primary at Bedford High School in Bedford, New Hampshire February 9, 2016. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

Op-Ed

There are policy solutions that can end the war on childhood, and the discussion should start this campaign season

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Kristina Hazeltine plays a game of Uno Dare with her children A.J. Wilson, 12, left, and Deacon Hazeltine, 6, center, at their home on Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, in Springfield, Mo.Hazeltine5

Education Plus Development

A parent’s guide to surviving COVID-19: 8 strategies to keep children healthy and happy

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Television cameras are set up outside the Montgomery County Courthouse for a news conference while actor and comedian Bill Cosby attended a preliminary hearing on sexual assault charges in Norristown, Pennsylvania February 2, 2016. Cosby on Tuesday sought to derail Pennsylvania prosecutors' effort to make him stand trial on sexual assault charges, contending that a deal reached over a decade ago gave him immunity from prosecution. Prosecutors late last year charged Cosby, 78, with sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a former basketball coach at his alma mater Temple University, just days before the statute of limitations to bring charges ran out. REUTERS/Mark Makela - RTX255D9

Up Front

What science tells us about how to combat fake news

Michael H. Pasek

Friday, January 27, 2017

A child peeks through the border fence during the "Interfaith Service for Justice and Mercy at the Border" to demand the U.S. government to end the separation of immigrant children from their parents at the border, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico September 7, 2018. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez - RC1410DF6D00

Education Plus Development

Thank you, Mr. Rogers: An escape hatch for the holidays

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Helen Shwe Hadani

Wednesday, November 27, 2019