News: Learning & Education
Leveraging the Opportunity of Adolescence to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism
March 14, 2024UCLA CDA Co-Executive Director Andrew Fuligni and Policy and Practice Director Elise Brumbach explain how insights from developmental science could help schools promote attendance and engagement for middle and high school students.
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January 17, 2023: New Guides Help Organizations Build Effective Youth Engagement Programs
August 16, 2021: New Report Examines Intersection of Anti-Black Racism on Youth Development
November 30, 2020: Center for the Developing Adolescent Announces New Advisory Board Members
October 1, 2020: Center for the Developing Adolescent Announces New Leadership
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A Campus Space for LGBTQ Students Closed. A ‘Women’s Community Center’ Took Its Place.
February 12, 2024Research shows that students do better in school when they feel safe, and LGBTQ+ centers make them feel both safe and seen, explains NSCA member Stephen Russell in this piece about what is lost when diversity, equity, and inclusion bans take effect at colleges and universities.
The Stages of Adolescent Brain Development With UCLA’s Adriana Galván, PhD
October 24, 2023In this presentation for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, our Co-executive Director Adriana Galván presents insights into adolescent brain development and shows how better understanding this developmental period can inform and improve programs and services focused on youth well-being.
Want to understand your adolescent? Get to know their brain.
May 23, 2023NPR science corresponded Jon Hamilton spoke with our Co-Executive Director Adriana Galván and other researchers about why the adolescent brain is "a marvel."
Calculating the Emotional Cost of Remote Learning
August 19, 2021CDA board chair Dr. Ron Dahl talks with reporter Rebecca Bodenheimer about the effects of pandemic-related distancing on the social-emotional learning that is so central to adolescent development.
Middle School’s Moment: What the Science Tells Us About Improving the Middle Grades
August 18, 2021Reporter Kelly Field talked to experts including our Co-Executive Director Dr. Andrew Fuligni and board chair Dr. Ron Dahl about how to fix the developmental mismatch between middle schools and the needs of young adolescents.
‘Don’t go back to the old normal’: Opportunities for Adolescent Learning Revealed by COVID-19
July 14, 2021If there's a silver lining to the pandemic it's this: A chance to return to a better "normal," one that supports the remarkable opportunities for learning during adolescence. Our Co-Executive Director, Adriana Galván, and others spoke about that opportunity at the Education Writer Association's 2021 National Seminar.
Adolescent Brains Are Wired to Want Status and Respect: That’s an Opportunity for Teachers and Parents
April 20, 2021Author Lydia Denworth talks to leading developmental researchers (including National Scientific Council on Adolescence members David Yeager, Linda Wilbrecht, Ron Dahl, Anthony Burrow, and Nick Allen as well as CDA Co-Executive Director Andrew Fuligni) about what science tells us about the intense social and emotional learning of the adolescent years.
What Back to School Might Look Like in the Age of COVID-19
July 30, 2020Center founding director Dr. Ron Dahl talks about the importance of engaging adolescents in safety solutions in this illustrated guide on how schools are planning to reopen in the midst of the pandemic.
We shouldn’t disregard the ideas that come from teens’ developing brains
February 28, 2018Center board member Dr. Nicholas Allen explains why we should listen to adolescents. “What adolescents bring to a situation is this capacity for innovation and new thinking and for experimentation,” he says. “That is absolutely critical to culture. If we don’t have that, then culture remains the same.”