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A Wrong Turn for SNAP Reform

June 11, 2025
The Regulatory Review

The budget bill’s expanded SNAP work requirements ignore the reality of low-wage work, writes Anna Gassman-Pines with co-author Elizabeth Ananat in The Regulatory Review.

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A framework and policy case for black reparations to support child well-being in the USA

May 1, 2025
Nature

Commentary by Duke University professors Lisa A. Gennetian, Christina Gibson-Davis and William A. Darity Jr.

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‘A Critical Inflection Point’

May 1, 2025
School Administrator Magazine

Katie Rosanbalm talked to the School Superintendents Association for this article about innovative mental health initiatives in public schools.

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New Research from Child Development Shows Fostering a Warm Home Environment Leads to Young People’s Beliefs that the World is Safe

April 23, 2025
Society for Research in Child Development

Jennifer Lansford discussed her new child development research with the Society for Research in Child Development. She detailed how children build beliefs about safety in the world around them. ScienMag also summarized her research.

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Is your school representative of your county?

March 13, 2025
Times Union

Charles Clotfelter was cited again for his public school demography work in this Times Union article about Albany, NY, public school representation.

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Limits, strictness, warmth: How culture shapes the parent-child relationship

March 6, 2025
Blick

Jennifer Lansford was cited in this Blick (Germany) article that examined and compared different cultural approaches to raising children.

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‘When you try to cultivate the arts, you have to welcome people in’: Courtney Lucius on dance, VMS and media literacy

February 27, 2025
The Duke Chronicle

“Love any Child Policy course. Of the ones I took, I liked Child Policy Research with Dr. Whitney McCoy, a phenomenal course. I was a freshman in that class. They were really sweet because I’d never written a research paper at that point, but they let me take the class.'”

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Lansford Addresses United Nations on Global Megatrends Affecting Families

February 14, 2025
Sanford School of Public Policy

Jennifer Lansford spoke at the United Nations, offering into four megatrends shaping families worldwide: technology, demographic shifts, urbanization and migration, and climate change.

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This St. Louis school district banned smartphones entirely

January 21, 2025
St. Louis Mag

Katie Rosanbalm was the featured expert for an article in St. Louis Mag that tells the story of one St. Louis school that has chosen to completely ban student cell phones on school grounds.

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What Is the Child Tax Credit and Who’s Eligible?

January 16, 2025
Newsweek

The Child Tax Credit is a valuable tax benefit for families with dependent children, currently offering up to $2,000 per qualifying child.

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Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone?

January 2, 2025
The Economist

The pluses and pitfalls of the world’s most disciplined primary schools

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Whitney McCoy and Shaundra Daily on Creating Inclusive STEM Spaces

December 4, 2024
Duke Service-Learning

Through the InventHERs Institute, Drs. Whitney McCoy and Shaundra Daily are revolutionizing how girls and women see themselves in STEM fields.

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2024 Color of Education Summit highlights equity, community, and civic action

October 7, 2024
EdNC

Jennifer Lansford is quoted in article about her research on the long-term consequences of dropping out of high school, previously featured in Newsweek.

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Costs of college campus economic diversity to democracy? A view from an economics classroom

September 27, 2024
The Chronicle

Classrooms – I might argue, especially economics classrooms – can go a long way to interrogate normative perspectives and issues from non-normative tools in all of the
ways that a true democracy demands, writes Lisa Gentian in The Duke Chronicle.

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Babies don’t come with instructions. But in Oregon, they now come with a nurse

July 23, 2024
NPR

Family Connects, an initiative started by Kenneth Dodge through the Duke Endowment, has been rolled out nationally by Family Connects International. NPR highlighted the program’s rollout in Oregon.

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Registration open for Color of Education summit featuring keynote by Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr.

July 17, 2024
EducationNC

On September 27-28, 2024, the Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity and Opportunity will host its annual Color of Education summit. The convening will bring a community together to progress collective action toward achieving racial equity and eliminating racial disparities in education.

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What a big experiment giving money to parents reveals

July 15, 2024
Vox

In 2018, a remarkable experiment was launched called Baby’s First Years, studying young children in the US. The main question it asked was simple: What does giving $4,000 a year, unrestricted, to families with young kids do for them?

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The Importance of Fathers

June 16, 2024
CBS News

Jennifer Lansford spoke with CBS Sunday Business Page about the importance of fathers in a child’s life and the research that shows how children gain positive support from an active and engaged dad.

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Texas Map Reveals Areas With Most High School Dropouts

June 7, 2024
Newsweek

Jennifer Lansford told Newsweek in a previous interview that students who end up dropping out of high school could face adverse ramifications well into adulthood, pointing to her research.

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Childcare crisis impacting even more parents across the country

April 23, 2024
KATV

America’s childcare crisis is taking another turn for the worse, now impacting a new group of parents. The employment gap between those who have a four-year college degree and those who don’t is growing larger, which is impacting how parents are seeking out childcare.

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E233: Grocery and Meal Insight from the Baby’s First Years Project

April 3, 2024
Leading Voices in Food

This podcast episode features researchers from Baby’s First Years, a multi-year effort to test the connections between poverty reduction and brain development among very young children.

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Student Voices: Inspired to Put Children First by Wilson Lecture

March 25, 2024
News Release

Duke student Phoebe Ducote writes about her recent experience meeting with the Wilson Lecture speaker, Adam Benforado, who recently spoke at the Sanford School of Public Policy.

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