The COVID-19 pandemic continues, and you’re at home with the little ones. We’re still here for you. Earlier we shared...
Community Health Workers Can Play a Key Role in Keeping Families Healthy
A report calls for the integration of community health workers into early childhood well-child care.
The well-child visit is standard pediatric practice for the first three years of life. Every few months, parents or caregivers...
It’s the not-so-secret secret: Higher rates of poverty occur for U.S. children in rural communities rather than urban ones. Yet delivering the benefits and tools of brain science to these areas is difficult in terms of cost, location, infrastructure. As Senior Specialist Lindsey Lockman Dougherty, Save the Children – in partnership with the Vroom Initiative – is doing something about that.
5 Top Takeaways from New America’s Better Life Lab Conversation with Child Care Advocates and Policy Leaders
New Report Raises Critical Questions
What do Marriott, Home Depot, Patagonia and Walmart have in common? These businesses offer benefits like onsite child care and...
Want to fight poverty? Robin Hood CEO Wes Moore – bestselling author, Army combat veteran, social entrepreneur – explains why improving education is an excellent place to start. Filmed for Early Learning Nation’s Mobile Studio at the Society for Research in Child Development’s biennial meeting in Baltimore, MD, on March 22, 2019. #SRCD19
The American Rescue Plan signed by President Joe Biden on March 12 contains a number of potentially game-changing policies for...
Why Don’t We Just Do That?
Over Cocktails, Restaurateurs Hatch a Plan for Literacy
Three years ago, Amanda and John Horne, owners of Anna Maria Oyster Bar in Bradenton, Florida, heard that 51 percent of children in their local Manatee County school system couldn’t read at grade level by third grade. They were appalled.
“This was horrific,” Amanda says. “We had no idea that this was an issue.”
Over cocktails one night, Amanda and John wondered what they could do. Their clientele is largely composed of older “grandparent-type” people. They have four restaurants and a mailing list of more than 24,000 customers. What if they could pair children up with a grandparent figure or somebody who cares about them, read with them and maybe instill them with a love of reading?
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
What Do Young Children Know about Race? You Might Be Surprised.
I-LABS’ Equity Briefs for Parents, Providers and Policymakers
What does white privilege have to do with early education? I spoke to Drs. Marley Jarvis and Andrew Meltzoff of the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences at University of Washington (I-LABS) about how children’s first experiences of race determine later perceptions and attitudes.
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan declared, “America needs more education power.” Nearly 40 years later, this theme held true as experts and elected officials of both parties came together July 22 for the Reagan Institute Summit on Education’s annual event, titled “Disrupted: From Crisis to Innovation.”
Who Supports Universal Pre-K?
A Look at 2020 Presidential Candidates
If the candidates running for president are a reliable indicator, support for universal pre-K—at least in concept—is popular. Of course, what federal action that support might bring is anyone’s guess.
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
