A toddler swirls paint across a page. A preschooler examines a leaf found on the playground. An infant shakes a tambourine for the first time. Nearby, an undergraduate student leads a lesson while researchers study how the children learn and grow.<\/p>\n
For the last century, these moments, both ordinary and extraordinary, have unfolded in Purdue University\u2019s Ben and Maxine Miller Child Development Laboratory School where children, families, students and researchers come together to shape the highest quality early childhood education. Now, as it celebrates its 100-year anniversary, the lab school, which is housed in the Department of Human Development and Family Science, is taking a moment to appreciate its past and build its momentum toward the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":48073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[2269,2603,263,1161,2601,2602,2605,2600,2604,2599,240],"class_list":["post-48072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development-and-family-science","tag-ben-and-maxine-miller-child-development-lab-school","tag-ben-miller","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-human-development-and-family-science","tag-early-learning-matters-curriculum","tag-elizabeth-schlesinger-devlin","tag-fowler-memorial-house","tag-hanley-hall","tag-maxine-miller","tag-purdue-nursery-school","tag-purdue-university"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n