News
November 6, 2024
The mission of STEMIE at FPG is to improve access and participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning opportunities for young children with disabilities and intersecting identities. Understanding the importance of identifying disparities in STEM education, a STEMIE team recently examined the literature and published their findings.
November 4, 2024
Megan Bookhout is a research scientist with the National Implementation Research Network at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG). As part of our FPG profile series, we recently spoke with Bookhout to learn more about her work at FPG. Here’s what she had to say.
October 30, 2024
Desiree Murray, a faculty fellow at FPG and senior research scientist at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Gillings School of Global Public Health, is among a group of four Carolina faculty members to receive the first Translating Innovative Ideas for the Public Good Awards.
October 25, 2024
While early childhood experts agree that school expulsion is an ineffective behavior management strategy, each year more than 17,000 children aged three to five—largely boys and Black, Latine, and Native American children—are permanently removed from preschools. Recognizing the negative impacts of exclusionary discipline, Iheoma U. Iruka co-edited Early Childhood Research Quarterly’s “Special Issue: Advancing the science of early childhood expulsion prevention."
