Social Policy Report Archives
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Volume 1 (1984)- Volume 30 (2017). The below Reports are available in PDF format to view and download.
2017
Supporting Parents: How Six Decades of Parenting Research Can Inform Policy and Best Practice
Volume 30, Number 5
Douglas M. Teti, Pamela M. Cole, Natasha Cabrera, Sherryl H. Goodman, and Vonnie C. McLoyd
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Research-Practice Partnerships: Building Two-Way Streets of Engagement
Volume 30, Number 4
Vivian Tseng, John Q. Easton, and Lauren H. Supplee
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Children, Youth and Developmental Science in the 2015-2030 Global Sustainable Development Goals
Volume 30, Number 3
Abbie Raikes, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Pia Rebello Britto, and Iheoma Iruka
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PK-3: What Does It Mean For Instruction?
Volume 30, Number 2
Deborah Stipek, Doug Clements, Cynthia Coburn, Megan Franke and Dale Farran
2016
Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools: Prevalence, Disparities in Use, and Status in State and Federal Policy
Volume 30, Issue 1
Elizabeth T. Gershoff and Sarah A. Font
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The Influence of Health Care Policies on Children's Health and Development
Volume 29, Issue 4
James M. Perrin, Thomas F. Boat, and Kelly J. Kelleher
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Development of Boys and Young Men of Color: Implications of Developmental Science for My Brother's Keeper Initiative
Volume 29, Issue 3
Oscar A. Barbarin, Velma McBride Murry, Patrick Tolan, Sandra Graham, and the Boys of Color Research Collaborative
2015
Children and Terrorism
Volume 29, Issue 2
James Garbarino, Amy Governale, Patrick Henry, and Danielle Nesi
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Federal Expenditures on Children: What Budget Policy Means for Children's Policy
Volume 29, Issue 1
Heather Hahn
2014
Opportunities and Challenges in Evidence-based Social Policy
Volume 28, Issue 4
Lauren H. Supplee & Allison Metz
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Military and Veteran Families and Children: Policies and Programs for Health Maintenance and Positive Development
Volume 28, Issue 3
Col (Ret) Stephen J. Cozza, Richard M. Lerner, & Ron Haskins
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Common Core: Development and Substance
Volume 28, Issue 2
David T. Conley
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The Biological Embedding of Child Abuse and Neglect Implications for Policy and Practice
Volume 28, Issue 1
Sara R. Jaffee & Cindy W. Christian
2013
Multilingual Children Beyond Myths* and Toward Best Practices
Volume 27, Issue 4
Allyssa McCabe, Catherine S. Tamis-Lemonda, Marc H. Bornstein, Carolyn Brockmeyer Cates, Roberta Golinkoff, Alison Wishard Guerra, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Erika Hoff, Yana Kuchirko, Gigliana Melzi, Alan Mendelsohn, Mariela Paez, & Lulu Song
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The Role of Public Policies and Community-Based Organizations in the Developmental Consequences of Parent Undocumented Status
Volume 27, Issue 3
Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Jenya Kholoptseva, & Carola Suárez-Orozco
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Positive Development of Minority Children
Volume 27, Issue 2
Natasha J. Cabrera
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Preserving and Enhancing the Responsible Conduct of Research Involving Children and Youth: A Response to Proposed Changes in Federal Regulations
Volume 27, Issue 1
Celia B. Fisher, Donald J. Brunnquell, Diane L. Hughes, Lynn S. Liben, Valerie Maholmes, Stuart Plattner, Stephen T. Russell, & Elizabeth J. Susman
2012
Social and Emotional Learning in Schools: From Programs to Strategies
Volume 26, Issue 4
Stephanie M. Jones & Suzanne M. Bouffard
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Children, Families and Poverty: Definitions,trends, emerging science and Implications for policy
Volume 26, Issue 3
Lawrence Aber, Pamela Morris, & Cybele Raver
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The Uses of Research in Policy and Practice
Volume 26, Issue 2
Vivian Tseng
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Building the Workforce Our Youngest Children Deserve
Volume 26, Issue 1
Holly Rhodes & Aletha Huston
2011
Promoting Equity, Tolerance, and Justice in Childhood
Volume 25, Issue 4
Melanie Killen, Adam Rutland, & Martin D. Ruok
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Household Food Insecurity: Serious Concerns for Child Development
Volume 25, Issue 3
Barbara H. Fiese, Craig Gundersen, Brenda Koester, & LaTesha Washington
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Quality of Early Childhood Development Programs in Global Contexts
Volume 25, Issue 2
Pia Rebello Britto, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, & Kimberly Boller
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Evidence-Based Interventions for Juvenile Offenders and Juvenile Justice Policies that Support Them
Volume 25, Issue 1
Scott W. Henggeler & Sonja K. Schoenwald
2010
Safe Schools Policy for LGBTQ Students
Volume 24, Issue 4
Stephen T. Russell, Joseph Kosciw, Stacey Horn, & Elizabeth Saewyc
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Review of Three Recent Randomized Trials of School-Based Mentoring: Making Sense of Mixed Findings
Volume 24, Issue 3
Marc E. Wheeler, Thomas E. Keller, & David L. DuBois
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Autism Spectrum Disorders Diagnosis, Prevalence, and Services for Children and Families
Volume 24, Issue 2
Catherine Lord & Somer L. Bishop
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Protecting Children from Exposure to Lead: Old Problem, New Data, and New Policy Needs
Volume 24, Issue 1
Claire Cole & Adam Winsler
2009
Home Visitation and Young Children: An Approach Worth Investing In?
Volume 23, Issue 4
Jennifer Astuto & LaRue Allen
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Evidence-Based Programming in the Context of Practice and Policy
Volume 23, Issue 3
Robert B. McCall
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Early Educational Opportunities for Children of Hispanic Origins
Volume 23, Issue 2
Eugene Garcia & Bryant Jensen
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The Difficult Transition to Adulthood for Foster Youth in the US: Implications for the State as Corporate Parent
Volume 23, Issue 1
Mark E. Courtney
2008
Reclaiming the Family Table: Mealtimes and Child Health and Wellbeing
Volume 22, Issue 4
Barbara H. Fiese & Marlene Schwartz
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Children in Immigrant Families: Looking to America's Future
Volume 22, Issue 3
Donald J. Hernandez, Nancy A. Denton, & Suzanne E. Macartney
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After-School Programs and Academics: Implications for Policy, Practice, and Research
Volume 22, Issue 2
Robert C. Granger, Ed.D.
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Mathematics Education for Young Children: What It is and How to Promote It
Volume 22, Issue 1
Herbert P. Ginsburg, Joon Sun Lee, & Judi Stevenson Boyd
2007
NCLB: State Interpretations, Early Effects, and Suggestions for Reauthorization
Volume 21, Issue 4
Andrew C. Porter & Morgan S. Polikoff
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The Benefits and Costs of Head Start
Volume 21, Issue 3
Jens Ludwig & Deborah Phillips
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Teaching Tolerance in Schools: Lessons Learned Since Brown v.Board of Education About the Development
Volume 21, Issue 2
Jennifer H. Pfeifer, Christia Spears Brown, & Jaana Juvonen
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Katrina’s Children: Social Policy Considerations for Children in Disasters
Volume 21, Issue 1
Joy D. Osofsky, Howard J. Osofsky, & William W. Harris
2006
Organized Activity Participation, Positive Youth Development, and the Over-Scheduling Hypothesis
Volume 20, Issue 4
Joseph L. Mahoney, Angel L. Harris, & Jacquelynne S. Eccles
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Understanding and Facilitating the Youth Mentoring Movement
Volume 20, Issue 3
Jean E. Rhodes & David L. DuBois
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The Epidemic of Childhood Obesity: Review of Research and Implications for Public Policy
Volume 20, Issue 2
Jenelle S. Krishnamoorthy, Chantelle Hart, & Elissa Jelalian
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Deviant Peer Influences in Intervention and Public Policy for Youth
Volume 20, Issue 1
Kenneth A. Dodge, Thomas J. Dishion, & Jennifer E. Lansford
2005
Connecting the Science of Child Development to Public Policy
Volume 19, Issue 4
Aletha Huston
PK-3: An Aligned and Coordinated Approach to Education for Children 3 to 8 Years Old
Volume 19, Issue 3
Kimber Bogard & Ruby Takanishi
Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies on Young Children: New Findings on Policy Experiments
Volume 19, Issue 2
Pamela A. Morris, Lisa A. Gennetian, & Greg J. Duncan
Using Scientific Knowledge to Inform Preschool Assessment: Making the Case for "Empirical Validity"
Volume 19, Issue 1
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Anita Kochanoff, Nora S. Newcombe, & Jill de Villiers
2004
From Baby Einstein to Leapfrog, From Doom to Sims, From Instant Messaging to Internet Chat Rooms: Public Interest in the Role of Interactive Media in Children's Lives
Volume 18, Issue 4
Ellen Wartella, Allison G. Caplovitz, & June H. Lee
Putting the Child Back Into Child Care: Combining Care and Education for Children Ages 3-5
Volume 18, Issue 3
Jessica Brauner, Bonnie Gordic, & Edward Zigler
Beyond the Methodological Gold Standards of Behavioral Research: Considerations for Practice and Policy
Volume 18, Issue 2
Robert B. McCall & Beth L. Green
Stimulation Programs for Preterm Infants
Volume 18, Issue 1
Tiffany Field, Maria Hernandez-Reif, & Julia Freedman
2003
Juveniles’ Competence to Stand Trial as Adults
Volume 17, Issue 4
Laurence Steinberg, Thomas Grisso, Jennifer Woolard, Elizabeth Cauffman, Elizabeth Scott, Sandra Graham, Fran Lexcen, N. Dickon Reppucci, & Robert Schwartz
Toward an Understanding of Youth in Community Governance: Policy Priorities and Research Directions
Volume 17, Issue 3
Shepherd Zeldin, Linda Camino, & Matthew Calvert
Kindergarten: An Overlooked Educational Policy Priority
Volume 17, Issue 2
Sara Vecchiotti
Do You Believe In Magic?: What We Can Expect From Early Childhood Intervention Programs
Volume 17, Issue 1
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
2002
Towards an Understanding of the Impact of Welfare Reform on Children with Disabilities
Volume 16, Issue 4
Elisa A. Rosman, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, & Jane Knitzer
Emotions Matter: Making the Case for the Role of Young Children’s Emotional Development for Early School Readiness
Volume 16, Issue 3
C. Cybele Raver
At What Age Should Children Enter Kindergarten? A Question for Policy Makers and Parents
Volume 16, Issue 2
Deborah Stipek
The Effects of Welfare Reform Policies on Children
Volume 16, Issue 1
Pamela A. Morris
2001
Adolescents as Adults in Court: A Developmental Perspective on the Transfer of Juveniles to Criminal
Volume 15, Issue 4
Laurence Steinberg & Elizabeth Cauffman
Strategic Frame Analysis: Reframing America’s Youth
Volume 15, Issue 3
Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. & Susan Nall Bales
Self-Sufficiency Programs and Parent Interventions: Lessons from New Chance and the Teenage Parent
Volume 15, Issue 2
Nancy E. Reichman & Sara S. McLanahan
Youth Civic Development: Implications of Research for Social Policy and Programs
Volume 15, Issue 1
Constance A. Flanagan & Nakesha Faison
2000
Parental Leave Policies: An Essential Ingredient in Early Childhood Education and Care Policies
Volume 14, Issue 2
Sheila B. Kamerman
What Do Adolescents Need for Healthy Development? Implications for Youth Policy
Volume 14, Issue 1
Jodie Roth & Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
1999
Service Learning: Who Benefits and Why
Volume 13, Issue 4
Arthur A. Stukas, Jr., E. Gil Clary, & Mark Snyder
Evaluating the Effectiveness of School-Based Violence Prevention: Developmental Approaches
Volume 13, Issue 3
Christopher C. Henrich, Joshua L. Brown, & J. Lawrence Aber
Perspectives on Father Involvement: Research and Policy
Volume 13, Issue 2
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda & Natasha Cabrera
Beyond "Giving Science Away": How University-Community Partnerships Inform Youth Programs, Research, and Policy
Volume 13, Issue 1
Jill Denner, Catherine R.Cooper, Edward M. Lopez, & Nora Dunbar
1998
Improving the Life Chances of Children in Poverty: Assumptions and What We Have Learned
Volume 12, Issue 4
Robert G. St.Pierre & Jean I. Layzer
Implications of the 1996 Welfare Legislation for Children: A Research Perspective
Volume 12, Issue 3
Martha Zaslow, Kathryn Tout, Sheila Smith, & Kristin Moore
Investigating Child Care Subsidy: What Are We Buying?
Volume 12, Issue 2
Helen Raikes
Fathers’ Involvement with Children: Perspectives from Developing Countries
Volume 12, Issue 1
Patrice L. Engle & Cynthia Breaux
1997
Public Policy Schools as Opportunities for Developmental Scientists: An Overview and Illustration
Volume 11, Issue 3
Rachel A. Gordon & P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
Training the Applied Developmental Scientist for Prevention and Practice: Two Current Examples
Volume 11, Issue 2
Celia B. Fisher & Joy D. Osofsky
Schooling, the Hidden Curriculum, and Children’s Conceptions of Poverty
Volume 11, Issue 1
Judith A. Chafel
1996
A Reconceptualization of the Effects of Undernutrition on Children's Biological, Psychosocial, and Behavioral Development
Volume 10, Issue 5
Ernesto Pollitt, chair; Mari Golub, Kathleen Gorman, Sally Grantham- McGregor, David Levitsky, Beat Schürch, Barbara Strupp, & Theodore Wachs
Building Research and Policy Connections: Training and Career Options for Developmental Scientists
Volume 10, Issue 4
Amy Susman-Stillman, Joshua L. Brown, Emma K. Adam, Clancy Blair, Robin Gaines, Rachel A. Gordon, Ann Marie White, & Sheri R. Wynn
Is the Emperor Wearing Clothes? Social Policy and the Empirical Support forFull Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in the Preschool and Early Elementary Grades
Volume 10, Issue 3
Bryna Siegel
Inclusion at the Preschool Level: An Ecological Systems Analysis
Volume 10, Issue 2
Samuel L. Odom et al.
Latin American Immigration and U.S. Schools
Volume 10, Issue 1
Claude Goldenberg
1995
Children Who Witness Domestic Violence: The Invisible Victims
Volume 9, Issue 3
Joy D. Osofsky
The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: Its Relevance for Social Scientists
Volume 9, Issue 2
Susan P. Limber & Malfrid Grude Flekkoy
Escaping Poverty: The Promise of Higher Education
Volume 9, Issue 1
Erika Kates
1994
Resiliency Research: Models, Issues, and Policy Implications
Volume 8, Issue 4
Marc A. Zimmerman & Revathy Arunkumar
Developmental Effects of Lead Exposure in Children
Volume 8, Issue 3
Johanna Rich Tesman & Amanda Hills
Children in Poverty: Designing Research to Affect Policy
Volume 8, Issue 2
Aletha C. Huston
Children's Changing Access to Resources: A Historical Perspective
Volume 8, Issue 1
Donald J. Hernandez
1984 - 1993 (For reference only)
1993
Integrating Science and Ethics in Research with High-Risk Children and Youth
Volume 7, Issue 4
Celia B. Fisher
Child Witnesses: Translating Research into Policy
Volume 7, Issue 3
Stephen J. Ceci & Maggie Bruck
Using Research and Theory to Justify and Inform Head Start Expansion
Volume 7, Issue 2
Edward Zigler & Sally J. Styfco
Canadian Special Education Policies: Children with Learning Disabilities in a Bilingual and Multicultural Society
Volume 7, Issue 1
Linda S. Siegel & Judith Wiener
1992
Crack's Children: The Consequences of Maternal Cocaine Abuse
Volume 6, Issue 4
Theresa Lawton Hawley & Elizabeth R. Disney
The States and the Poor: Child Poverty Rises as the Safety Net Shrinks
Volume 6, Issue 3
Julie Strawn
Testing in American Schools: Issues for Research and Policy
Volume 6, Issue 2
Patricia Morrison
Mother-Headed Families: An International Perspective and the Case of Australia
Volume 6, Issue 1
Alisa Burns
1991
Rhetoric or Reality? Child and Family Policy in the United States
Volume 5, Issue 4
Francine H. Jacobs & Margery W. Davies
The Migrant Head Start Program
Volume 5, Issue 3
Mary Lou de Leon Siantz
Infant Mortality and Public Policy
Volume 5, Issue 2
Ann L. Wilson & Gary Neidich
Two-Generation Program Models: A New Intervention Strategy
Volume 5, Issue 1
Sheila Smith
1990
Antecedents of Illiteracy
Volume 4, Issue 4
Barbara J. Fox
Pediatric AIDS and HIV Infection in the United States: Recommendations for Research, Policy, and Programs
Volume 4, Issue 3
Linda A. Valleroy
Child Mental Health: Service System and Policy Issues
Volume 4, Issue 2
Judith H. Jacobs
Social Science and the Prevention of Children's Injuries
Volume 4, Issue 1
Penelope H. Brooks & Michael C. Roberts
1988
Homelessness: Implications for Children and Youth
Volume 3, Issue 4
Andrea L. Solarz
Implications of Public Law 99-457 for Early Intervention Services for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities
Volume 3, Issue 3
Penny Hauser-Cram, Carole C. Upshur, Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, & Jack P. Shonkoff
Head Start: A Backward and Forward Look
Volume 3, Issue 2
Diana T. Slaughter , Valora Washington , Ura Jean Oyemade, & Rachel Washington Lindsey
Children and the Uninsured
Volume 3, Issue 1
Charles N. Oberg
1987
Child Care: Quality, Regulation, and Research
Volume 2, Issue 4
Karen S. Weintraub & Laurie N. Furman
School Dropout: A Federal Perspective
Volume 2, Issue 3
Brian L. Wilcox & Trudy Vincent
The National Center for Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health
Volume 2, Issue 2
Angela Barron McBride
The Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention Act
Volume 2, Issue 1
Ellen Greenberg Garrison
1984-1986
Bilingual Education Act, Title II of the Education Amendments of 1984
Volume 1, Issue 5
Diane L. August
Children and Television
Volume 1, Issue 4
Dale L. Kunkel & Bruce A. Watkins
The Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
Volume 1, Issue 3
Lindsay Chase-Landsdale, Patrick Casey, Kathleen, McCluskey, Ernesto Pollitt, Jill Reich, Henry Ricciuti, Maris Vinovskis, Valora Washington, & Ann Wilson
Adolescent Pregnancy
Volume 1, Issue 2
Barbara Everett, Wendy Baldwin, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Patrick Casey, Susan Crockenberg, Frank Furstenberg, Jr., Hariette McAdoo, Craig Perry, Maris Vinovskis, & Valora Washington
The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1983
Volume 1, Issue 1
Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Patrick Casey, Byron Egeland, Eli Newberger, Diana T. Slaughter, Maris Vinovskis, & Valora Washington