During the 2024-2025 academic year, the 星空无限 is celebrating its 50th anniversary. As we look back on 50 years of advancing gender equality, social justice, and human wellbeing, we are proud of the way we鈥檝e shaped a better world through research and action.
From a study of how schools shortchange girls to our work on white privilege, these are some highlights from the past 50 years.
In 1976, we hosted a groundbreaking international conference on Women and Development. Today, Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., is involving women, youth, and others in efforts to combat climate change in Liberia.
When the School-Age Childcare Project was founded in 1978, it brought national attention to the importance of out-of-school time (OST). Today, NIOST is helping OST programs embed literacy into everyday practices.
Beginning in 1991, we participated in a massive national study of whether child care harms children (it does not). Today, Wendy Wagner Robeson, Ed.D., is studying how to get home-based child care providers into the field and keep them there.
Research & Action Annual Report 2024
In this issue:
- Celebrating 50 Years of Social Change for Women
- Landmark Achievements
- Then and Now: Tackling the Most Critical Global Issues
- Then and Now: Leading the Way in Out-of-School Time
- Then and Now: Insights into Early Childhood Care and Education
- Learn more about where our research initiatives started, and where they are today
