This article appears in UNICEF’s 2014 Flagship Report

By James Radner, Karlee Silver and Nathaniel Foote

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Acknowledgements:
The authors wish to thank the researchers and communities who collaborated on the innovations described in this essay, friends who commented on the text, and colleagues who have been with us on the learning journey. Among others: Jane Abrams, Christoph Berendes, Raquel Bernal, Silvia Bunge, Russell Eisenstat, Philip Fisher, Jason Gortney, Jena Hamadani, Lorri Hope, Annmarie Hulette, Rebecca Jaques, Aarti Kumar, Vishwajeet Kumar, Liliana Lengua, Alicia Lieberman, Linda Mayes, Denis Pelli, Ximena Peña, Christine Powell, Joseph Rotman, Holly Schindler, Elizabeth Segal, Jack Shonkoff, Peter A. Singer, Megan Smith, Fahmida Tofail, Susan Walker and Tassy Warren. The innovations were supported in significant part by Grand Challenges Canada (funded by the Government of Canada), the Washington State Department of Early Learning, and the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.