One of the global pioneers behind the science of early childhood learning and development, Ellen Galinsky, chief science officer at the Bezos Family Foundation and executive director of Mind in the Making, discusses her landmark book, Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs, as well as her next project, which includes exploring the mind of the adolescent.
What are you most thankful for in the early learning world? We put the question to Early Learning Nation’s community...
First, the good news. As it turns out, the so-called summer slide might not be the threat to our nation’s...
Investing in New Systems for Paying Educators What They Need and Deserve
New Grant Opportunity Deadline May 1, 2023
For U.S. children to realize their potential, the professionals who care and educate them need the training, respect and compensation...
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....
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
The Power of Early Relationships
A Q&A with Isabelle Hau about her new book, “Love to Learn: The Transformative Power of Care and Connection in Early Education.”
Our country is in the midst of a loneliness epidemic, and Isabelle Hau, director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning,...
Frederica Perera, founder of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, didn’t write Children’s Health and the Perils of Climate...
Many business leaders realize: If you want to secure the workforce of the future, it makes sense to start at the beginning of “the supply chain.” And that’s early learning.
Early Education Is the Most Segregated Learning Space
How Researchers Casey Stockstill and Halley Potter Hope to Change That
It’s been 70 years since the Supreme Court’s pivotal Brown vs. Board of Education ruling that racially segregated schools are...
What Inspires You to Work on Behalf of Young Children?
Celebrating the Week of the Young Child, April 6-12
Every week is the Week of the Young Child at Early Learning Nation magazine. The National Association for the Education...
Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...
