What Inspires You to Work on Behalf of Young Children? Celebrating the Week of the Young Child, April 6-12 Mark Swartz and Art Hondros (Illustrator)·Apr 9, 2024·7 min readEvery week is the Week of the Young Child at Early Learning Nation magazine. The National Association for the Education... Read More
First-Time Survey Illuminates Audience Interests and Impact of Early Learning Nation MagazineThe Editors·Mar 28, 2024·2 min readEarlier this month, Early Learning Nation magazine created our first-ever survey to better understand our audiences’ motivation for reading and... Read More
Cal Newport Thinks We Can Work Better – But Where Does Caregiving Fit In? Q+A with Bestselling Author on How and Why Care and Work Intersect Rebecca Gale·Mar 27, 2024·7 min readWork and caregiving seem to exist as a yin and yang on our lives: the pull of one exerts influence... Read More
New Report Shows There’s Room for Improvement in Navigating a More Equitable ArizonaMark Swartz·Feb 8, 2024·7 min readShantel Meek, Ph.D., founding executive director of the Children’s Equity Project at Arizona State University, learned an important lesson during... Read More
New Report by the Century Foundation: The Child Care Cliff Meant the End of Federal Funds – But Some States Are Stepping In to Fix ThatRebecca Gale·Feb 7, 2024·10 min readThe Covid-19 pandemic ushered in unprecedented federal spending in the child care industry. When schools and child care programs shut... Read More
What Are You Thankful For?Mark Swartz and Art Hondros (Illustrator)·Nov 22, 2023·4 min readEvery year, Early Learning Nation magazine asks experts and friends what they’re thankful for in the early learning world. This... Read More
NAEYC’s Michelle Kang: Empowering “the Workforce behind the Workforce”Mark Swartz·Oct 31, 2023·7 min readEarly Learning Nation magazine recently interviewed Michelle Kang, CEO of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC),... Read More
“A Loving Approach”: Q & A with the Children’s Bureau’s Aysha E. SchomburgMark Swartz·Aug 22, 2023·5 min readEarly Learning Nation spoke to Aysha E. Schomburg, J.D, leader of the Children’s Bureau (part of the Administration for Children... Read More
Escaping the Policy Labyrinth with New America’s New Practice LabMark Swartz·May 16, 2023·5 min readAccording to New America’s recent “Lost in the Labyrinth” report, “Families with the youngest children stand to gain the most... Read More
“A Sense of Urgency Like Never Before”: Dismantling Racist Systems with Leah AustinMark Swartz·Apr 18, 2023·6 min readLeah Austin, Ed.D., president & CEO of the National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) spoke with Early Learning Nation magazine... Read More
The Power of First 10 Partnerships: 3 Examples Part II of a two-part interview with David Jacobson Mark Swartz·Mar 16, 2023·4 min readThe First 10 initiative of the Education Development Center (EDC) supports a network that will soon include more than 60... Read More
The Power of First 10 Partnerships Part I of a two-part interview with David Jacobson Mark Swartz·Mar 16, 2023·5 min readThe First 10 initiative of the Education Development Center (EDC) supports a network that will soon include more than 60... Read More