How are teachers displaying items with writing on them — the physical literacy environment, an important factor shaping children’s emergent literacy skills — when students of different ages share the same preschool classroom? That’s what Crane researchers sought to find out.

Crane Center researchers are investigating how media use, both interactive (apps and games) and noninteractive (television and video), can affect young children’s language development.

Nonspeaking Readers is a study on the effects of two commercially available reading curricula designed for students with severe disabilities.

The ED3 Project aims to better understand how to provide intervention for children that need help learning new vocabulary.

ABOUT THE PROJECTLongitudinal Peer Social Networks and Early Language Development: Transforming Understanding of Critical Features of Young Children’s Classroom Experiences. LYLE is a multi-year study that seeks to understand how [...]

ABOUT THIS PROJECTThe goal of Promoting Early Engagement, Relationships, and Socialization (PEERS) is to create a systematic guide to support teachers in organizing groupings of children during play time to [...]

Support young children during their transition to kindergarten through these resources for researchers, parents, and providers.

CKP Project focuses on the efficacy of the Core Knowledge in Preschool Program in promoting the math and science education of children who are at risk of socioeconomic disadvantage.

ABOUT THE PROJECTFocus on Learning, Interaction, and Play (FLIP) at Recess is an intervention designed to build social competence and play skills for elementary students with severe disabilities, including students [...]

Kids in Columbus Study (KICS) investigates how families with young children, specifically those living in low-income households, access and use community resources that are funded each year by the city of Columbus.

The Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy is partnering with the City of Columbus and Future Ready Columbus to conduct a study on the Early Care and Education Landscape in Franklin County (“Landscape Study”).

The Landscape Study aims to identify salient early care and education experiences for children under the age of five in Franklin County. This includes participation in formal and informal care arrangements, caregiver beliefs and practices, and home learning activities and experience. The study also hopes to identify barriers and enablers to early care and education for families in the Columbus area.

This five-year, NIH-funded project will examine the effect of a specific reading comprehension intervention aimed at helping elementary school students.