For adults who’ve spent much of the past two years watching PowerPoint presentations while attending Zoom meetings, the idea of...
Build Back Better Helps, Not Hurts, Faith-Based Child Care
Critics are Overselling the Changes While Religious Programs Fight for Their Lives
While the investments in early care and education appear broadly safe, one unresolved design question concerns what should be required of child care programs operated by faith communities.
The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Is Long Overdue for Reform
With a budget debate looming, here are some of the proposed solutions on the table.
You’d be forgiven for having trouble keeping up with the alphabet soup of family-related tax credits. Most of the policy...
On July 18, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), Children’s Equity Project and Start Early cohosted the final part of their...
In our talk of care, we frequently focus on questions of where, who and what. We rarely ask questions of why we care and what it means to care. Similarly, much of the modern care conversation centers around (very real!) struggles and scarcity. That’s why I was so pleased to read journalist Elissa Strauss’ new book, When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others.
How do you ensure that Eight Essential Outcomes for Black Child Development get to communities, schools, educators, leaders, researchers, policymakers and parents anywhere—or everywhere—in the U.S.? Build a National Village Network, explains NBCDI’s Director of Community Engagement.
This July, American parents started experiencing something brand new. After Democrats passed an expansion of the Child Tax Credit in...
Heat, Floods, Storms Limit Outdoor Play for Young Children, Surveys Show
Parents and child care providers report spending less time outside with children and suffering health and economic harm from extreme weather.
Physical activity is crucial for young children’s well-being. Outdoor play not only supports children’s physical health and their social and...
For Children and the Climate, the Future Is Now
Diving into the Data with the Early Years Climate Action Task Force
Human brains aren’t so good at planning ahead. Because we have a weird tendency to view our future selves as...
“What this study is asking is whether or not, as a matter of public policy, is it a straightforward way to achieve the important goal of early childhood development.” -- Matt Klein, executive director, New York City Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity
Franklin County—the most populous county in Ohio and home to Ohio State University (OSU)—is also one of the Buckeye State’s...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
