Support for this project was provided by Better Life Lab at New America...
Though it’s been decades since I’ve read it, I’m certain I could come out of a deep sleep and, if...
Early Educators And Child Care Providers Seek Legal Advice on Immigration
During the second Trump Administration, the early childhood workforce is getting a crash course in immigration law.
As the Trump administration vows to fulfill campaign promises of mass deportations, Lesley Ellefson-Porras, an immigration lawyer in Alexandria, Virginia,...
What RFK Jr.’s Plans for Baby Formula Mean for Parents
Advocates and public health officials say there is room for improvement in formula regulation, but some question that execution amid food safety oversight cuts
This story was originally reported by Barbara Rodriguez of The 19th. Federal officials earlier this month announced a new initiative...
Innovations in Child Care Investment: Building the Case for Public and Private Funds
Part 1 of a 5-Part Series Explores Innovations in Child Care
Our country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is for...
Some States Have Avoided the Child Care Cliff
By Keeping Investment Going, About a Dozen States Have Kept Providers Open and Tuition Increases Down.
The federal American Rescue Plan Act, signed into law in early 2022, sent the child care sector the single largest...
Agents in Their Own Learning
Q&A with the Play Learning Lab’s Angela Pyle
Dr. Angela Pyle is director of the Play Learning Lab at University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education....
Mobilizing Communities So All Children Make the Grade
Pop Up Neighbor events, community, collaboration, mobilization
Even without advance promotion, when word got out that the SuperMatt Laundromat in Sarasota, Florida, was offering free laundry all day, neighborhood residents formed a steady stream of customers.
Not only was laundry-and-all-the-fixings free—a boon to low-income families who can ill afford the $35 to $50 a week they spend trying to keep their kids in clean clothes—the food bank was there with abundant food to restock their pantries.
Best of all, there were books—lots of books—and plenty of volunteers to read to children while the adults did as many loads of laundry as needed. When the children left, books went home with them.
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a catastrophe that helped reveal some of the deepest fissures in the isolated nuclear family,...
This magazine uses the word crisis a lot. We’ve reported again and again that early childhood education in America is...
I see people signing all the time because I live in the Washington, D.C., area near the Red Line, which...
As founder of the organization and its nonprofit offshoots Schoolhouse.world, Khan Lab School and Khan World School, he has built a planet-changing education powerhouse that touches millions.
