On March 14, 2012, Lisa Guernsey gave two presentations at the New York State Educational Media and Technology Association's annual meeting. The first, "E-Books: Can They Improve Students' Reading Comprehension?," highlights the emerging research revolving around questions of whether electronic books, especially electronic picture books for young children, can be helpful or harmful as students learn to read.

This report is a compilation of six blog posts on the Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge winners.

Links to each of the six posts can be found on our special RTT-ELC page, and the PDF of the blog series can be found under "related files" in the column to the rignt.

On January 26, 2012, the Early Education Initiative presented its findings and recommendations from New America’s latest paper on teacher effectiveness, Watching Teachers Work: Using Observation Tools to Promote Effective Teaching in the Early Years and Early Grades.  Lisa Guernsey, director of the Early Education Initiative, led the presentation as part of a panel discussion at the New America Foundation's office in Washington, D.C.  Susan Ochshorn, founder of ECE Policy Works in New York and c

On November 15, 2011, Lisa Guernsey gave a webinar presentation as part of an Early Childhood Research series. Her presentation was a preview of new research gathered for the second edition of her book, renamed Screen Time: How Electronic Media -- From Baby Videos to Educational Software -- Affects Your Young Child, which will be released in paperback in March 2012.