Anyone who has been following the intersection of COVID-19 and child care knows that the U.S. is not doing well....
Help! We are barreling toward the holiday season, and the brakes aren’t working. Know what I mean? The most wonderful...
Head Start Chaos Is Harmful for Children, Parents and Educators
President Trump’s guidance to pause federal funding created uncertainty for many. As the crisis subsides, let’s remember who lost out amid the chaos.
On Monday afternoon, the Trump administration dropped a public policy bomb: the Office of Budget and Management (OMB) released a...
Infants and young children are rarely at the forefront of state and national policy agendas. For the good of the nation and the future of our world, they should be.
Jackie Counts, director of Kansas University’s Center for Public Partnerships and Research (CPPR), likens the early childhood continuum to the...
The last time Early Learning Nation magazine sat down with researcher Dr. Chrishana Lloyd of Child Trends, she had just...
For many parents, the formula shortage isn’t over; it has become a gnawing ongoing element of their lives. And for...
BOOK REVIEW: Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty
An Indictment of U.S. Policy and Clarion Call to Fix It
Thanks to U.S. public policy going back decades, nearly 40 million people in this country live below the poverty line...
In 2016, Alma Gonzalez, a passionate Latino community leader and volunteer, along with the community organization Eastside Pathways, identified the...
Policymakers increasingly understand the importance of expanding the availability of quality early care and education for young children. In good...
What do you do when the world is turned upside-down? Once you stop panicking, you listen. That’s the core value...
Literacy is a top priority because we know that so much of our success in K-12 hinges on building better readers. In the past, we’ve had an environment of “too little, too late” when it comes to helping kids before they pass the third grade, which is recognized as a milestone for reading development.
