The COVID-19 pandemic continues, and you’re at home with the little ones. We’re still here for you. Earlier we shared...
Though family and faith are at the core of traditional Latino culture, and strong support for education is a powerful...
The children attending Tiny Trees Preschool classrooms in Seattle and King County parks may look like they’re “just playing,” but those little boots are actually marching, climbing, stomping and squishing their way to a well-rounded preschool education.
I still have flashbacks to the time my elder child’s kindergarten teacher left me alone with the class. Opening Cloudy...
More Bad News for Child Care: The Importance of Not Looking Away
Our Broken Child Care System and How to Fix It, Part 2
In this three-part series, Dr. Laura Justice—executive director of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy at The...
The building block has been such a fact of American childhood for so long, it’s easy to dismiss the humble...
Maria Montessori’s Influence on Early Education
Part 1 of a 3-Part Series
Part I: From Italy to the World Maria Montessori (1870-1952) might not be quite as famous as her near contemporaries...
Not everyone who comes to America is pursuing the American Dream. Some are in flight from life-threatening crises. Layered on...
Every year, ZERO TO THREE presents a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of “significant and enduring contributions to improving the...
Virginia is for Childcare Solutions
Smart2Start = 1 Application for Almost 150 Providers
Virginia’s Roanoke Valley, anchored by its namesake city in Southwest Virginia, is a considerable distance from the economically booming area...
It’s an ongoing global crisis: More than half of all refugee children – some 62 million – have no access to any form of education. From establishing schools in refugee camps to bringing Sesame Street to the Middle East, Sarah Smith, Sr. Director of Education at the International Rescue Committee, explains how the IRC addresses this humanitarian emergency every day. Filmed for Early Learning Nation’s Mobile Studio at the Society for Research in Child Development’s biennial meeting in Baltimore, MD, on March 22, 2019. #SRCD19
Developed in the 1990s, Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) aim to increase the availability of high-quality early education programs,...














