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5 Top Takeaways from the Capita Webinar: Should We Have A Constitutional Amendment for Children?

Mark Swartz·Sep 9, 2021·4 min read

On August 31, Capita held a webinar called “The Rights of Children in America: Do We Need a Constitutional Amendment?” Provocative? You bet. Elliot Haspel—whose new monthly column, “Elliot’s Provocations,” just launched in Early Learning Nation—served as moderator for the conversation.

More than 700 Child Care Providers Shut Their Doors to Demand Better Pay

“Without Child Care, There’s No Workforce”

Bryce Covert·May 8, 2023·4 min read

Lorretta Johnson has been running a child care out of her home in Austin, Texas since 1999, caring mostly for...

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Helping Children Connect with Nature through Gardening

Anna Hammond·Apr 17, 2020·6 min read

Julie Cerny’s book, The Little Gardener: Helping Children Connect with the Natural World, is part how-to, part inspiration and part...

Ready Ready: An Early Childhood “Backbone” in North Carolina

Mark Swartz·Jan 25, 2022·5 min read

Guilford, the third largest county in North Carolina, was the site of the 1960 Woolworth counter sit-in that helped spread...

An Environmental Health Scientist’s Recipe for Giving the Next Generation a Safe Future

Mark Swartz·Feb 7, 2023·5 min read

Frederica Perera, founder of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, didn’t write Children’s Health and the Perils of Climate...

Book Review: Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth

K.C. Compton·May 30, 2023·5 min read

In flipping the script, Banks writes that birth is immense, that birth has existential, moral and theological significance at least as great as death.

Good Learning Needs Good Nutrition: A Fundamental Value for the Educare Learning Network

K.C. Compton·Mar 21, 2023·6 min read

When you’re not sure what to eat, But you want to make a healthy treat, A delicious meal so tasty...

How Early Relationships Fuel Brain Development and Learning

Hau and Kang: Investing in early relationships is not just an act of kindness; it is a societal imperative that builds our future relational economy.

Isabelle Hau and Michelle Kang·Mar 12, 2025·2 min read

Among the most profound expressions of love are the relationships that shape a child’s earliest years. Just as love between...

New Step-by-Step Activity Guide Helps Adults Discuss Race with Young Children

Mark Swartz·May 19, 2023·4 min read

Author and advocate Heather McGhee has said, “Everything we believe comes from a story we’ve been told.” Whether they come...

Kelly Fradin’s Parenting Prescription. Interview with the Author

Mark Swartz·Jun 20, 2023·4 min read

“Every family has multiple balls in the air,” Kelly Fradin writes in Advanced Parenting. “Some are bouncy balls and if you drop them the show will go on. But others are glass and require more attention to keep intact.”

Infants the World Over Can Spot a Lullaby—in Any Language

Researchers Are Hot on the Trail of Why

K.C. Compton·Jan 19, 2021·5 min read

If someone were to ask what makes a lullaby a lullaby, you might stumble a bit trying to come up...

The Science Behind Early Learning: Ellen Galinsky

The Editors·Nov 30, 2018·6 min read

One of the global pioneers behind the science of early childhood learning and development, Ellen Galinsky, chief science officer at the Bezos Family Foundation and executive director of Mind in the Making, discusses her landmark book, Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs, as well as her next project, which includes exploring the mind of the adolescent.

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