What a Difference Extended-Hours Childcare Makes 17-Hour Childcare in Rochester Is a Gamechanger for Working Parents K.C. Compton·Mar 3, 2020·6 min readWhen many daycare centers are closing shop for the day, Rosa Marie at Rochester’s Marvelous Mind Academy is just getting... Read More
Care for All: Key Lessons for Child Advocates from the Broader $648 Billion Care EconomyMark Swartz·Sep 17, 2024·7 min readEarly Learning Nation magazine often focuses on child care and early education, which comprise about one-fifth of the $648 billion... Read More
Tools of the Mind Part II: Playing and Learning at Denver’s Lowry ElementaryMark Swartz·Oct 17, 2023·3 min readAfter learning about the Tools of the Mind curriculum from cofounder Deborah Leong (read our interview), writer Mark Swartz met... Read More
Neurons and Neighborhoods in the Nation’s Capital How a D.C. Women’s Shelter Is Becoming a Leader in Multigenerational Therapy Mark Swartz·Dec 7, 2022·4 min readEarly in the pandemic, Dr. Alicia Lieberman, director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San... Read More
NISO + Eastside Pathways: Training Community Members to Become Agents of ChangeK.C. Compton·Nov 30, 2021·7 min readIn 2016, Alma Gonzalez, a passionate Latino community leader and volunteer, along with the community organization Eastside Pathways, identified the... Read More
For Children and the Climate, the Future Is Now Diving into the Data with the Early Years Climate Action Task Force Mark Swartz·Nov 21, 2022·4 min readHuman brains aren’t so good at planning ahead. Because we have a weird tendency to view our future selves as... Read More
The Path to Quality Child Care Just Became a Little Less Elusive: New Research Shows Star-Rating Systems Can Drive Improvement At-ScaleKendra Hurley·Jun 22, 2021·6 min readThose following the debates regarding President Biden’s historic child care proposal may be experiencing whiplash. On the one hand, a... Read More
Can Bipartisan Statewide Support for Early Education Become a National Trend?Tom Kertscher·Jun 20, 2019·4 min readLegislation that includes what an early childhood advocacy group says is an “historic investment in early childhood” has been signed... Read More
Growing the Pipeline of Early Childhood Educators Neighborhood Villages Apprenticeship Program Graduates First Cohort and Continues to Grow Rebecca Gale·Apr 12, 2024·5 min readCassandra Antoine always knew she wanted to work with children. Her goal was to open her own child care center,... Read More
Alabama Child Care Activist Lenice Emanuel Speaks Her TruthMark Swartz·Mar 31, 2022·5 min readThis magazine uses the word crisis a lot. We’ve reported again and again that early childhood education in America is... Read More
What It Takes to Nurture “Little Leaders”: Reflections from a Family Care Provider in the Bronx With Training and Tech Assistance from All Our Kin Mark Swartz·Nov 28, 2023·4 min readLoving ice cream doesn’t qualify you to open an ice cream parlor. The same goes for child care. Entrepreneurs who... Read More
Keywords and Coffee Fuel In-Depth Studies of Environmental Education in Early ChildhoodK.C. Compton·Nov 3, 2022·5 min readOne thought comes immediately to mind when looking at Stanford University researchers’ systematic review of 66 studies on the value... Read More