“We’re not going to grow as a nation without a strong system of care,” Gladys Montes stated at the outset...
While such togetherness and lack of the usual resources will likely inspire new horror films and comedy series, this quarantine period also provides a positive reminder for us to slow down, be present and reclaim the wonder.
Summer’s here, and the time is right for… helping our kids hold onto what they learned during this extraordinary year....
COVID-19 is a bizarre disease that defies easy answers. It impacts the lungs – except when it doesn’t. It brutalizes...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
Dr. Alicia Lieberman was on a telemedicine call with a mother and her four-year-old son. The boy was continually and...
The pandemic has upended entire industries, including the early childhood education (ECE) industry, which has suffered through permanent closures, high...
Building community in a COVID-19 world is tough. But Brooklynites are nothing if not creative, industrious and hard-wired for...
Decades before the Covid pandemic, Ai-jen Poo realized that domestic workers who care for children and the elderly had few...
The question that parents and practitioners really want to know is this: How safe are child cares? Or, put another way, how likely is my child (or am I) to catch COVID-19 from a child care center? In order to know that, we need to be able to answer how much transmission is occurring WITHIN child care centers? Until we ask the right questions and demand the right data, we’ll be stumbling in the dark.
Since the early weeks of the pandemic, advocates and policymakers have relied on RAPID’s survey results for up-to-the-minute snapshots of...
Building Young Brains When Schools Are Closed, Part 1: Offline Activities
Three-part Series Offers Top Tips for Parents and Caregivers
This is part 1 of a a three-part series. Read Part 2 (Online Activities) and Part 3 (Outdoor Tips). We...