Megan Gunnar, professor and director, Institute of Child Development, discussed early brain development and the achievement gap on Minnesota Public Radio’s Morning Edition on March 4. Gunnar said that the science has shown evidence of the benefits of intervening early in a child’s life for a long, long time, and that, “The regions of the brain critically important for higher reasoning, thinking and academic functioning are affected by the way those early structures have gotten set into place. So the achievement gap begins very early.”