North Carolina is home to one of the most famous early childhood research studies, the Carolina Abecedarian Project, which for decades has affected research, policy, and public knowledge about the importance of early childhood experiences. A paper published last week in Early Childhood Research Quarterly revisits the project, but centers an aspect of children’s lives that the study often left out: race. The new paper notes that the teachers’ race, and the fact that many were living in the same community as the children in the study, “has important implications that should be considered as this aspect of the children’s experiences may very well have contributed to the positive effects on children’s outcomes.“