From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts: A science-based approach to building a more promising future for young children and families

This report from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University provides an overview of the science of early childhood development, particularly brain development and the impacts that early experiences have on brain development. The report presents the lessons learned from five decades of program evaluation research on early childhood programming and how this research can be used to develop breakthrough “solutions to some of the most complex challenges facing parents, communities, and nations.”