Recent additions to the Crane Center
We are proud to highlight the incredible force of early childhood experts that recently joined the Crane Center. We extend a very warm welcome to the center’s two new faculty associates – Dr. Ji-Young Choi and Dr. Becky Huang. Dr. Choi is an associate professor in Human Sciences with interest in discovering how we can better support school readiness for children from linguistically and economically diverse backgrounds. Dr. Huang is a professor in Teaching and Learning whose research focuses on the goal of promoting language and education outcomes for multilingual students through language/literacy development and assessment. These two experts join our team of nine faculty associates.
When asked what work they are most excited about right now, here’s what they had to say:
“Emergent bilingual language development research methods, examining the impact of mask wearing, and studying a newly developed reading intervention.”
“Collaborative investigation of patterns and outcomes in Head Start children’s use of additional public early care and education and how this best relates to access and school readiness”
These two experts advance our partnership with a team of nine faculty associates in Ohio State’s College of Education and Human Ecology. Our faculty associates research expertise spans kindergarten readiness, special education, children’s social networks, literacy development, early education policy analysis, and identifying strengths in Black children that lead to positive socioemotional and academic outcomes.
We are thrilled to support a cohort of 21 graduate students from across Ohio State disciplines this academic year. Their research interests include the impact of poverty of children’s development, quantitative research, use of technology in students’ self-regulation, education policy, special education including children with severe disabilities along with strategies for inclusion, app development, culturally relevant and responsive education, and teacher-child relationships and classroom environments.
We are proud to have these researchers join our team in addition to our 27 faculty affiliates, three research scientists, five postdoctoral scholars and affiliates, our directors of research and evaluation, and executive director.