[7][8] She serves as an appointed member of the Committee on Fostering School Success for English Learners: Toward New Directions in Policy, Practice, and Research of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
An especially influential paper titled Fatherhood in the Twenty-First Century[13] discussed the impact of various factors that influence children's upbringing, such as women's contributions to the labor force, the role of fathers in families where both parents reside at home, the detachment and distance of fathers who do not reside with their children, and cultural diversity in parenting practices.
[13] Tamis-LeMonda has been involved in many large-scale longitudinal studies of children growing up in low-income families, including the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project.
[14][15][16] One of Tamis-LeMonda's more recent studies examined longitudinal relationships between the early learning environments of toddlers assessed at 14 months, 2 and 3 years and their academic skills at 5th grade.
The study found mothers' engagement with their toddlers in book reading and conversation and the provision of developmentally appropriate learning materials to be strong predictors of children's subsequent cognitive development and school success.