Author Archives: Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff is the Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Education, Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware and director of the Child’s Play, Learning, and Development laboratory. She has co-written or co-edited 14 books in collaboration with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek.

OPINION: ‘There are policy solutions that can end the war on childhood, and the discussion should start this campaign season’

by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced his “war on poverty” during his State of the Union speech on Jan. 8, 1964, citing the “national disgrace” that deserved a “national response.” This story also appeared in Brookings Institution Today, many of the poor children of the Johnson era are poor adults with children and grandchildren of their […]