Global TIES for Children has announced the appointment of Florencia Lopez Boo as the center’s new Director, effective this Fall 2024. Lopez Boo will also be a professor of economics and applied psychology in the Department of Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt.

Standing With Palestine: NYU-TIES’s Commitment Amidst U.S. Campus Unrest.

New York University’s Global TIES for Children and afikra are pleased to announce the launch of "Inside the Arab Classroom," a new podcast series that explores education traditions and innovations within Arabic-speaking nations. The series tells stories from inside Arab classrooms - from how Arabic literacy is taught to who decides what constitutes ‘good citizens’ - and aims to provoke curiosity among learners of all ages and in all contexts about the challenges to and opportunities for learning and thriving in Arab classrooms.

New Research Shows Substantial Impact on Children’s Learning from Groundbreaking Ahlan Simsim Initiative Combining Educational Media and Early Childhood Services

Conducted by NYU researchers, major studies show the efficacy of Sesame Workshop and International Rescue Committee’s initiative for children affected by conflict and crisis, through a local version of Sesame Street and a new approach to remote preschool

Over the past 7 years, the Humanitarian Education Accelerator (HEA) has supported 21 innovative and impactful education in emergency and protracted crises (EiEPC) solutions to transition to scale. Support has included financing and capacity building, and has focused on producing actionable evidence.

Many lessons have been learnt throughout the 7 years and 3 cohorts, including lessons for innovators, EiEPC practitioners, donors, and accelerators. We have compiled these lessons into a Learning Synthesis so that global audiences can share in the lessons learnt.

Researchers at Global TIES for Children, an international research center based at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU New York, examined a variety of post-migration risks faced by Syrian refugee children enrolled in Lebanese public schools and found that students being older than expected for the grade in which they were placed was most consistently and strongly associated with developmental and learning difficulties. As many schools around the world prepare to reopen in 2020 and beyond, the study provides critical insights that can help inform efforts to reintegrate children into schools after significant disruption and time away.

Sesame Street began airing an Arabic-language show called “Ahlan Simsim” (Welcome Sesame) in the Middle East with a focus on dealing with emotions.

Multi-year, International research programme to focus on building the global evidence base for education in emergencies.

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To provide effective aid to children who live in areas of conflict it is necessary to understand precisely how they have been impacted by the crises around them. One area of importance is the effect of conflict and trauma on a child’s development and education.

In a new paper, Global TIES for Children researchers J. Lawrence Aber, Carly Tubbs Dolan, Ha Yeon Kim, and Lindsay Brown, present a review of opportunities and challenges they have encountered in designing and conducting rigorous research that advances our understanding of this effect.

RTI International (RTI), a non-profit research institute, and New York University’s Global TIES for Children Center (NYU-TIES) are pleased to announce our collaboration under the LEGO Foundation’s new Measurement Initiative to develop tools to measure “Learning through Play” across age groups, settings and contexts. This initiative will provide new ways to measure Learning through Play and help researchers understand how play contributes to holistic skills development in children.

We are honored to partner with the Lego Foundation, Sesame Workshop, BRAC and the IRC on this historic initiative to understand how play-based learning and support can build a future of hope, creativity, and engagement for a generation of children in some of the most challenging contexts in the world

"Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele, es psicóloga y educadora prenatal, quien fundó el primer Centro de Educación Prenstal e Inicial a nivel Nacional.

Esta mañana, Gabriela de Bukele, participó del evento de UNICEF en el que pudo compartir parte de su experiencia con los ponentes, entre ellos, Nadine Perrault titular de Unicef en El Salvador, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, codirector del centro global TIES for Children de la Universidad de New York y Ajay Chaudhry, profesor de la Universidad de New York y exsecretario adjunto del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos del Gobierno de Estados Unidos."

Countries must also invest in urban infrastructure, environmental sustainability, transportation and governance.

El especialista en desarrollo de la niñez de New York University, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, explica por qué los primeros tres años de vida son claves en el desarrollo del ser humano, a partir del desarrollo de su cerebro, y por tanto en la reducción de la delincuencia juvenil.