little about what motivates parents to engage in their children's development, recent research suggests that ignoring or … reports results from a randomized field experiment designed to increase the time that parents of children in subsidized … preschool programs spend reading to their children using an electronic reading application that audio and video records parents …

Programs that engage young children in movement and song to help them learn are popular but experimental evidence on … and kindergarten students in 47 schools in three U.S. states. We find that treated students scored higher on a test of …