Center on Media and Human Development

Here's another Forbes contribution on our work about the show 13 Reasons Why:

‘13 Reasons Why’ And Where The Research Stands On How It Has Impacted Viewers When the show began in 2017 there was considerable public discussion and news stories suggesting that parents should not let their adolescents watch a show which discussed teen su***de, bullying and sexual assault.

Check out the newest research from CMHD on mobile interventions designed to support parents of young children!

Using short message (SMS) and multimedia messaging (MMS) to encourage positive parent–child engagement around literacy and language development Research on language development suggests that children from low-income families hear nearly 30 million words less than their higher income counterparts (Hart &...

Check out the latest research from CMHD on young children and coding published in Computers & Education!

Learning to code via tablet applications: An evaluation of Daisy the Dinosaur and Kodable as learning tools for young children Despite the growing number of digital apps designed to teach coding skills to young children, we know little about their effectiveness. To formally ex…

Kelly Sheehan, Alexis Lauricella, and Ellen Wartella were recently featured on informalscience.com discussing CMHD's work on children's learning from STEM media. Check it out here:

Insights on Children’s STEM Learning through Media | InformalScience.org