Recent behavioral science research has found that adolescence, like early childhood, is a crucial period of development. A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report "The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth" ( looks at what this new understanding means for society and makes recommendations for how to improve the education, health, justice and child welfare systems to better meet the needs of youth ages 10-25. At the release of the report, Spotlight spoke with report authors and stakeholders about how structural inequalities can affect adolescents’ development and opportunity – and what policy can do to help.
Judith Diers of NASEM’s Committee on the Neurobiological and Socio-behavioral Science of Adolescent Development and Its Applications is a program officer for international programs at the Ford Foundation.
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