Those of us who watched too much TV in the 1970s probably remember commercials extolling long-distance phone calls as The... Read More
Before Coronavirus, the U.S. Child Care Landscape Was Already in Crisis
Our Broken Child Care System and How to Fix It, Part 1
In this three-part series, Dr. Laura Justice—executive director of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy at The... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
In each year from 2016 through 2018, more than 2 million parents of children age 5 and younger suffered “job... Read More
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps... Read More
It’s a cruel irony of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic: the youngest children, whose brains depend on education for healthy brain... Read More
Decades before the Covid pandemic, Ai-jen Poo realized that domestic workers who care for children and the elderly had few... Read More
Bank Street Makes the Case for Compensation
Puts Pay at the Center of the Child Care Dialogue
It isn’t the 1950s anymore. The reality before and, presumably, after the pandemic, is that parents are outside of home... Read More
Anyone who has been following the intersection of COVID-19 and child care knows that the U.S. is not doing well.... Read More
