Research

Prevention Works A recent report titled Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People:  Progress and Possibilities (National Academies Press, 2009) suggests that preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders among children and adoescents shoud be a national priority. 

The Importance of Play In support of the value of play, one study shows that there were no differences in academic achievement by first grade between children who had gone to "academic" preschools versus those who had gone to more play-oriented preschools.  But even more importantly, children from academic preschools were more anxious than those from play-oriented preshools in which the content was presented in a playful way.