Journalist Morton Kondracke writes in today’s Roll Call, urging legislators to attend I-LABS Co-Directors Kuhl and Meltzoff's congressional briefing on Wednesday, February 27th from 9:00 to 10:30am EST:
"Anyone on Capitol Hill who questions the potential benefits—or others just interested—can attend a mind-bending presentation at 9 a.m. Wednesday at SVC201 in the Capitol Visitor Center hosted by a bipartisan group of 12 lawmakers.
I’ve seen the show and it’s dazzling. Drs. Patricia Kuhl and Andrew Meltzoff have a machine at the University of Washington — a magnetoencephalograph — that records the real-time brain activity of young children."
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Early learning and I-LABS research have been hot topics in the month of February.
Following President Obama's State of the Union speech, early learning moved to the forefront of national education policy for 2013. An overview followed with in-depth analysis and commentary, highlighting insights from I-LABS Co-Director Andrew Meltzoff, appeared in the Washington Post.
MEG research conducted by Co-Director Patricia Kuhl at I-LABS was prominently featured in the Wall Street Journal and also in the Atlantic wire.
