Sonya Soni, Advocacy Program Director, Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, connects global insights from India to Los Angeles to explore how a sense of belonging—as well as something she calls “poetry in policymaking”—can impact structural obstacles to child and family welfare.
Decades before the Covid pandemic, Ai-jen Poo realized that domestic workers who care for children and the elderly had few...
Family Child Care Providers See Gains Under Vermont’s New Child Care Law
Act 76, the state’s version of near-universal child care, is giving family child care an overdue boost.
Chelsea Chase’s house sits on a rural road in Vermont, four miles from interstate 91. A row of cubbies filled...
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...
Affirming and celebrating all language practices supports children’s identity, and social and emotional well being, as well as fosters their...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
How Intergenerational Day Centers Benefit Children, Families, Seniors and Providers
Kindness Creators, a child care program housed in a senior facility in Illinois, builds empathy, fosters community and combats social isolation.
Jaime Moran brings her mother, Joan Johnson, to work each day at Kindness Creators, the child care program she co-directs...
As American cities rebuild after the pandemic, much of the focus is on infrastructure. For Dr. Tonja Rucker, Director of Early Childhood Success at NLC’s Institute for Youth, Education and Families, that means not only physical needs like roads and bridges, but also the family structure, starting with its youngest members. As Dr. Rucker notes: “If the youngest residents are healthy and doing well, then the rest of things kind of fall into place and families get to be able to meet their needs.”
Terri Simms has run her child care business, known as Playtime Nursery School, in Dayton, Ohio for over 27 years....
On June 6, the Campaign for Grade Level Reading and Early Learning Nation magazine teamed for a webinar called “Following the Science: Bilingualism as an Asset Supporting Early Brain Development.”
Happy Spring! Your spring fever is kicking in, you’ve got a ton on your plate and pollen is already making...
Last month, I wrote about how child care’s lack of salience in the public imagination is holding back its political opportunities. The absence of mass public pressure is one piece of the puzzle. Another piece is that by and large, child care lacks a strong inside game.
