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What’s Missing in Early Childhood Education: A School District

The established model works for K-12, so why is it missing in ECE?

Rebecca Gale·Oct 28, 2021·7 min read

Neighborhood Villages began with a goal: do for child care what the state already does for K-12. Organize it, regulate...

Leveraging Medicaid & CHIP programs to Optimize Early Learning Development

Don't Miss Webinar: June 26

Tom Kertscher·Jun 24, 2019·3 min read

Two organizations that advocate for the social and emotional development of young children are holding a webinar to promote a “blueprint” they say can be used to leverage the Medicaid and CHIP health programs to advance such development.

Book Review: No Longer Welcome: The Epidemic of Expulsion from Early Childhood Education

K.C. Compton·Mar 8, 2023·6 min read

Children 2, 3 and 4 years old—especially boys and Black children—are being kicked out of their schools at “staggering rates,” she writes—more than three times that of K–12 school children.

Top Head Start Program Embraces Innovation, Dispels Sacred Cows

Tom Kertscher·Apr 23, 2019·5 min read

As a preschooler, Victoria Ankrah was taught in a Paterson, N.J., Head Start program where her mother was a member...

Book Review: Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One

Majora Carter’s Community Manifesto Starts with Real Estate

Mark Swartz·Feb 1, 2022·3 min read

Gentrification is a subject that has launched a million listserv arguments. It often starts with complaints from longtime residents of...

Baby pulling stethoscope. Photo courtesy Mount Sinai Parenting Center

A Work in Progress: How Mount Sinai Parenting Center Is Bringing the Science of Child Development into Pediatric Education

Mark Swartz·Mar 27, 2019·4 min read

New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the nation’s oldest and largest teaching hospitals. They're upping their early childhoold development game with an online curriculum that demonstrates how pediatric residents can promote brain development and help strengthen parent-child relationships within the confines of routine well-child visits

Think Child Care is Hard to Find? Try Being a Parent Who Works Early Mornings, Late Nights or Weekends

Bryce Covert·May 17, 2023·6 min read

It’s hard enough to find child care in this country that is dependable and affordable when working a regular 9...

Working from Home in West Virginia, Championing #PaidLeaveforAll in Her Spare Time

Mark Swartz·Sep 27, 2021·3 min read

If Tiffany Gale got eight full hours of sleep a night, she’d never be able to get everything done. In...

5 Top Takeaways from Multnomah County’s Preschool Victory Research Report Release Event

Mark Swartz·Sep 7, 2021·3 min read

Last November, voters in Multnomah County, Ore., approved a measure to form a new universal preschool system. To pay for it, the county, which includes the city of Oregon, will collect a 1.5% tax on incomes of more than $125,000 per year and joint filings topping $250,000.

ParentCorps Builds Relationships from the Ground Up

“You’re the Expert on Your Child”

Mark Swartz·Jan 9, 2024·5 min read

If hearts and minds don’t change, neither will the social structures holding us back. But what’s the best way to...

Reach Out and Read: Beyond the Book

Mark Swartz·Jan 25, 2021·4 min read

Over the organization’s 30 years, Reach Out and Read (ROR) has become known for giving out books in pediatricians’ offices,...

5 Top Takeaways from the Trust for Learning and All Our Kin Webinar: Educator-Led Movement Building

Mark Swartz·Oct 5, 2023·4 min read

On Thursday, September 21, Trust for Learning and All Our Kin teamed up for a webinar titled “Educator-Led Movement Building: Lessons from Grassroots Leaders.”

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