The Difference Between Us: Race -The Power of an Illusion
It’s not uncommon to attribute differential group outcomes for SAT scores, musical ability, or athletic performance to innate racial traits—yet there are no characteristics, not even one gene, that distinguish all members of one “race” from ...
The Raising of America: Episode 3 - Are We Crazy About Our Kids?
About this title: A growing number of economists are worried about our investments in early childhood. Not because we’re spending too much but because we’re spending too little where it matters most.
Nobel laureate economist James Heckman, form...
The Raising of America: Episode 1 - The Raising of America
About the title: The U.S. is the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world. So why has our child well-being fallen to 26th? An alarming number of American children are following low developmental trajectories from the start. They enter adulthoo...
The Raising of America: Episode 2 - Once Upon A Time
About the title: Imagine how things might be different if all America’s children had access to high-quality early care and education for the past four decades? They almost did.
Back in 1971, a bi-partisan Congress passed a bill providing high-qua...
The Raising of America: Episode 4 - Wounded Places
About the title: Combat vets and survivors of wars and natural disasters aren’t the only people susceptible to PTSD. Too many of our children, especially children of color living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty, show the effects of unrele...
The Raising of America: Episode 5 - DNA Is Not Destiny
About the title: Fetal and early childhood experiences and environments – chemical, family, socio-economic – literally become part of us. But how? The genes we inherit don’t change. But new scientific discoveries reveal that disadvantage and a...