The American Rescue Plan signed by President Joe Biden on March 12 contains a number of potentially game-changing policies for...
New Mexico, a state long used to landing at the bottom of national rankings for children’s well-being, just made a...
Author’s Note: This moment, when the world has stopped spinning on its axis, presents an important opportunity to re-examine our...
Whitney Taylor belongs to Iowa’s largely female, often minority and almost always underpaid, child-care workforce. As center director at Capitol...
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...
The trauma of COVID-19 is widespread but not evenly distributed. Some communities are suffering more than others. The Commonwealth of Virginia has seen encouraging numbers lately, but of course it is not out of the woods. A recent Town Hall for Richmond-area parents featured...
Early Ed, Rebounding After COVID: Report Shows Pre-K Enrollment Hitting Record Levels
Mississippi and New Mexico were among the top states making gains in the 2022 school year.
Four-year-olds entering pre-K in Mississippi’s Lamar County Schools don’t spend their days on worksheets or bent over papers practicing their...
Chelsea Page knew when she was pregnant with her second child that, once the baby was born, she was going...
Oregon is aiming to improve child care across the state—expanding access, boosting quality and building more sustainability into the system....
Monitoring the patchwork of responses to COVID-19 across 50 states can be overwhelming. For example, in Washington state, a slowdown...
On a recent sunny Friday morning at the Daposka Ahnkodapi School in Pawhuska, Okla., the day began with weekly circle...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
