Blog | 03 September 2025 Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development Ensuring that children around the world can flourish is one of the most important goals of our time. Developmental science has made major strides in understanding how children grow, learn, and thrive – but there’s still much we don’t know. First, the field has traditionally focused on average effects [1, 2], often overlooking the rich […] Read more about Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development Read more about Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development
Blog | 09 March 2026 LEVANTE Data Release and Hackathon — Join us this summer! Robust discoveries in developmental science can be accelerated when open, high-quality datasets are easily accessible and used alongside best practices for reproducible research. To support this work, we are excited to announce the first publicly available LEVANTE dataset and an upcoming hackathon in summer 2026. Together, these contributions mark important steps forward for the LEVANTE […] Read more about LEVANTE Data Release and Hackathon — Join us this summer! Read more about LEVANTE Data Release and Hackathon — Join us this summer!
Blog | 13 February 2026 From Averages to Individuals: The Next Frontier of Evidence-Based Education Over the past decade, the landscape of education policy has undergone a quiet revolution. We have moved away from “gut feelings” about what works best for children toward a rigorous, evidence-informed approach. The rise of the Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)—often considered the “gold standard” for causal evidence—has been the engine of this change. Numerous foundations […] Read more about From Averages to Individuals: The Next Frontier of Evidence-Based Education Read more about From Averages to Individuals: The Next Frontier of Evidence-Based Education
Blog | 14 January 2026 Introducing the LEVANTE core tasks: open, cross-cultural measures for measuring learning and development (ages 5–12) Capturing how children learn and develop is difficult, especially at scale. If you’re tracking growth over time, evaluating an intervention, or testing how a child’s environment shapes development, you need measures that are efficient, reliable, valid, and usable across ages and contexts. In reality, the field is full of compromises: tasks that only work for […] Read more about Introducing the LEVANTE core tasks: open, cross-cultural measures for measuring learning and development (ages 5–12) Read more about Introducing the LEVANTE core tasks: open, cross-cultural measures for measuring learning and development (ages 5–12)
Blog | 05 December 2025 Bringing child development research online at scale Childhood occupies a significant chunk of the human lifespan. This extended period of development is where many uniquely human traits emerge: language, social cognition, and literacy all develop gradually over the course of childhood and all vary across individuals and groups. Since development entails change over time, understanding these traits requires a view that spans […] Read more about Bringing child development research online at scale Read more about Bringing child development research online at scale
Blog | 27 October 2025 Speaking Every Child’s Language: Ensuring authentic translation of LEVANTE tasks across countries A global research framework is only as good as its translation. Authentically translating the text and audio needed for our tasks into different languages remains one of the ongoing challenges in LEVANTE. Although it might seem straightforward—particularly with the rise of AI translation tools—it is in fact far more nuanced than it appears. Every translation […] Read more about Speaking Every Child’s Language: Ensuring authentic translation of LEVANTE tasks across countries Read more about Speaking Every Child’s Language: Ensuring authentic translation of LEVANTE tasks across countries
Blog | 03 September 2025 Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development Ensuring that children around the world can flourish is one of the most important goals of our time. Developmental science has made major strides in understanding how children grow, learn, and thrive – but there’s still much we don’t know. First, the field has traditionally focused on average effects [1, 2], often overlooking the rich […] Read more about Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development Read more about Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development