Human Capital Research Collaborative

We were saddened to hear of the death of Barbara Bowman. See this link to the tribute to her on our website.

HCRC Highlights | Human Capital Research Collaborative In Memoriam: Barbara Taylor Bowman (1928-2024)Last week, the field of early childhood education lost an expert, advocate and visionary leader whose work has deeply impacted the early childhood care and education landscape in the mission towards educational equity. Please read the attached letter wri...

New paper by HCRC researchers on the achievement gap. Summarizes evidence on the magnitude of the gap and suggests they can be reduced through PK-3 (preschool through 3rd grade) programs. Open access. Take a look!
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2022.871973/full

Join existing students and community members who are pursuing this certificate!

Learn more about our Certificate in Early Childhood Policy: https://www.hhh.umn.edu/certificate-programs/certificate-early-childhood-policy

A really big day for HCRC researcher Nicole Smerillo as she successfully defended her PhD dissertation in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development at the University of Minnesota.

Nicole's dissertation is called "Preschool parent perceptions of school climate & child achievement" and it is based on data from the Midwest Longitudinal Study of the Child-Parent Centers. Here is new Dr. Smerillo & committee member Arthur Reynolds!

Join us on Tuesday March 15 for this talk on Zoom!

Understanding the Minnesota Achievement Gap | Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs Join us for a presentation of the new report by the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor. Humphrey faculty member Judy Temple will moderate this presentation given by Humphrey alum Sarah Delacueva and her OLA colleagues. This event is co-sponsored with the Human Capital Research Collaborative...

Today - Tuesday October 26 (central time)!
Time: 12 to 1pm
New Opportunities to Strengthen Research, Training, and Services in Early Childhood Programs and Systems
Arthur Reynolds Professor & Co-Director of HCRC
Judy Temple Professor & Co-Director of HCRC
Lisa Barnidge Director of Enterprise Data and Information at the MN Department of Human Services
Amanda Varley Preschool Management Development Grant Manager at the MN Department of Education

See zoom link on HCRC website:

Human Capital Research Collaborative | Improving child and family well-being through research and social policy A new blog post by Christina F. Mondi & Allison Giovanelli, "Fostering socio-emotional learning through early childhood education," is up on the Evidence Matters blog.

"We’ve long failed to fund the child care sector like the public good that it is. Now it’s on the brink of collapse." Lauren Birchfield Kennedy & Katie Mayshak in the New York Times

Opinion | Your Day Care Probably Won’t Survive the Coronavirus We’ve long failed to fund the child care sector like the public good that it is. Now it’s on the brink of collapse.

Temple and Reynolds's 2015 Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis article on using pay for success to scale up early childhood programs was just included in a list of 10 Notable Resources for Pay for Success by the Intersector Project. http://intersector.com/lists/pay-for-success/ Article here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5116808/

Ten Notable Resources for Pay for Success This list presents notable cases, articles, tools, and reports to help those working on pay-for-success initiatives in a variety of issue areas.

HCRC researcher and ICD PhD student Lauren Eales is the
lead author on this new paper that links socio-emotional skills in the first decade of life to lower rates of adult obesity for this urban sample from Chicago.

Childhood predictors of adult obesity in the Chicago Longitudinal Study Despite obesity being a major concern for both children and adults in the United States today, there are few successful childhood interventions that c…

2019 saw the publication of Sustaining Early Learning Gains, an edited volume published by Cambridge University Press. HCRC co-director Judy Temple was interviewed earlier this year about the book and her podcast is available here.

Sustaining the benefits of early childhood education | CIVIOS - Your source for public affairs research Data show that only half of all children in the United States are ready for school when they enter kindergarten, and that learning gains from early childhood

Marketwatch covers new HCRC research linking participation in a pre-K-3rd educational intervention to higher earnings in adulthood.

This program helped children in poverty increase their chances of becoming higher earners by 50% Their average incomes were also 25% higher than peers who didn’t receive four or more years of this intervention.

Join us on Tuesday October 15 at noon on the West Bank of the U of MN for a talk by Associate Professor Aaron Sojourner on the usefulness for policymakers and researchers of the new childcare access tool developed by Sojourner, Elizabeth Davis, and Won Fy Lee.