Section One: Research Advances and Implications for Practice in Education 1. Early Childhood Development and Education 2. Assessments of Early Reading 3. Becoming Bilingual, Biliterate, and Bicultural 4. Mathematical Thinking and Learning 5. Scientific Thinking and Acience Literacy 6. Education for Spatial Thinking 7. Character Education 8. Learning Environments Section Two: Research Advances and Implications for Clinical Applications 9. Self-Regulation and Effort Investment 10. Risk and Prevention 11. A Developmental Psychopathology and Preventive 12. Mental Retardation 13. Developmental Psychopathology and Preventive Intervention 14. Families and Early Childhood Interventions 15. School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Programs 16. Children and War Trauma Section Three: Research Advances and Implications for Social Policy and Social Action 17. Cultural Pathways Through Human Development 18. Childhood Poverty, Policy, and Practice 19. The Chlid and The Law 20. Media and Popular Culture 21. Chldren's Health and Education 22. Parenting Science and Practice 23. Nonparental Child Care: Context, Concepts, Correlates, and Consequences 24. Research to Practice Rederfined