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The collaborative advances interdisciplinary research in global children’s issues by amplifying the work of existing university centers and institutes, bringing leading scholars to campus to interact with Georgetown faculty and students, and sponsoring a collaborative research grants program.

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Unfolding Opportunity: Advancing Childcare to Support Children, Families, and Societies

Joan Lombardi, senior fellow at the Collaborative for Global Children's Issues, co-authored a supplement article for Pediatrics that provides recommendations for expanding access to childcare services and improving quality.

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Statelessness and Young Children

Joan Lombardi, senior fellow at the Collaborative on Global Children's Issues, co-wrote a new publication for Statelessness and Citizenship Review on unrecorded births and the issue of statelessness.

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Helping Families Meet Basic Needs Enables Parents to Promote Children’s Healthy Growth, Development

Joan Lombardi, senior fellow at the Collaborative on Global Children's Issues, collaborated on the RAPID-EC project, a national survey of early childhood family well-being designed to gather data about the experiences of families with young children during the U.S. COVID-19 outbreak. This report…

Pay for Performance Teacher Incentives Improve Student Learning in Rwanda, Study Finds

Andrew Zeitlin, professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy, and colleagues found in Rwanda that the Pay for Performance model of incentivizing teachers improves learning without a negative effect on the teacher that is recruited or retained.

Expanding Medicaid Would Help Close Coverage Gap for Latino Children and Parents

Research from the Center for Children and Families finds that Latino children and parents are disproportionately likely to be uninsured across the country, but the coverage gaps are wider and growing faster in states that have yet to adopt Medicaid expansion.

In “Baby Jails,” Georgetown Law’s Philip Schrag Charts U.S. Detention of Child Refugees Over Time

Georgetown Law professor Philip Schrag's book examines the ongoing struggle between the U.S. government and immigrant advocates over the duration and conditions of confinement of children who seek safety in America.

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Do Better Schools Help to Prolong Early Childhood Education Effects?

A new study on Tulsa’s magnet middle schools co-authored by William Gormley (Center for Research on Children in the United States) finds that higher quality middle schools could help school districts to sustain short-term gains from early childhood education for a diverse cross-section of students.