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Why some school districts are spending big on schools tailor-made for 4-year-olds

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A study of a preschool program in West Hartford, Connecticut, for example, found the amount of childrens time spent interacting with an adult caregiver increased from 3 % to 22% after the program moved from a crowded basement room to a larger classroom with bathrooms, sinks, storage space, and phones inside the classroom.

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How heavy metals get into baby food—and what California is doing to help parents

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However, chronically ingesting too much lead or inorganic arsenic can negatively affect childhood health, including cognitive development, and can cause softening of bones. Michael White is a distinguished professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Connecticut. Read the original article.

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How the ‘Severance’ child-boss represents childhood under threat

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As a scholar of childhood studies , I also see historical echoes: What constitutes a childand whether one gets to claim childhood at allhas always depended on when and where a person is born. However, French historian Philippe Aris famously argued that childhood, as many understand it today, simply did not exist in the past.

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