How our work is making a difference
The Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy is a multidisciplinary research center dedicated to conducting high-quality research that improves children’s learning and development at home, in school and in the community.
Our Work
Our work ranges from multi-year, federally funded projects that examine outcomes of
thousands of children and families, to program evaluation work in our state, to smaller scale analyses and briefs
meant to inform policy makers and practitioners.
Recent News
This week in Tuned In: Ohio invests to address infant mortality, elementary school vending machine offers books, and what’s the return on investment for businesses offering child care support?
This week in Tuned In: Biden’s budget proposals to invest in early childhood, Head Start availability not meeting the need, and how learning science might help kids read better.
In 2023, the Crane and Schoenbaum Centers received 16 new grant awards to advance the field of early child care and education in research, practice, and policy.
During the March Crane Research Forum, Dr. Elizabeth Hadley discussed the impacts on language and literacy development in children at the end of first grade whose pre-kindergarten learning experiences were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.