For my last column of the year, I want to touch on a less-discussed but not-unimportant question: what in the heck should we call the care and education of children during the first five years of their life?
The laws of supply and demand have never quite applied to child care, and no state exemplifies this conundrum as...
A Top Priority for Generation Z? Child Care
New Survey Shows Generation Z Values Child Care as a Leading Workplace Benefit
Kelly Choi crunched the numbers on child care, and the results didn’t look good. Like the majority (66 percent) of...
It will take a long time for us to fully unpack the damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Research has...
A Decade Ago, Universal Pre-K Seemed Inevitable. What Went Wrong?
Williams: Politics may have killed universal pre-K but the research, results and family economics that made it such a strong bet are alive and well.
Early in my career — when the world was still young and the nihilistic carnival wing of our politics seemed...
Inspiration and Adaptation: Helping Parramore’s Parents—and Their Children—Learn and Grow in Orlando
One of the key principles of social entrepreneurship is replicability. If we are going to tackle the most difficult challenges...
Infants the World Over Can Spot a Lullaby—in Any Language
Researchers Are Hot on the Trail of Why
If someone were to ask what makes a lullaby a lullaby, you might stumble a bit trying to come up...
Playful Learning Landscapes
Meeting Children Where They Are with What They Need
Plaza. Piazza. Town square. The names may differ region to region, but they describe similar spaces: a place where residents...
If caregiving is labor, if caregiving supports child development, if caregiving boosts the economy, if caregiving enables family flourishing, then how can we say only institutional programs belong within child care policy?
If parents and caregivers had hard evidence of a tool that would positively influence their child’s IQ, vocabulary and other...
The Lahaina Fires Illuminate Our Immense Unpreparedness of Weather-Related Disasters
Will They Force Us to Reckon with the Vulnerability of Our Youngest Children in a Warming World?
There were children in Lahaina as fires razed the historic town of 13,000 people on August 8. One survivor fled...
The red tote bags hold adventure and history. They hold laughter and struggle. They hold inspiration and understanding. Recently, the...
