Professor Robert Halpern

Robert Halpern is a professor at the Erikson Institute for Graduate Study in Child Development in Chicago. His research focuses on the nature of good learning and developmental experiences during the high school years. He is the author of The Means To Grow Up: Reinventing Apprenticeship As A Developmental Support in Adolescence (Routledge, 2009); Making Play Work: The Promise of After-School Programs for Low-Income Children (Teachers College Press, 2003); Fragile Families, Fragile Solutions: A...See more

Robert Halpern is a professor at the Erikson Institute for Graduate Study in Child Development in Chicago. His research focuses on the nature of good learning and developmental experiences during the high school years. He is the author of The Means To Grow Up: Reinventing Apprenticeship As A Developmental Support in Adolescence (Routledge, 2009); Making Play Work: The Promise of After-School Programs for Low-Income Children (Teachers College Press, 2003); Fragile Families, Fragile Solutions: A History of Supportive Services for Families in Poverty (Columbia University Press, 1998); and Rebuilding the Inner City: A History of Neighborhood Initiatives to Address Poverty in the United States (Columbia University Press, 1995), among many other works. See less