When babies are learning to walk, they fall on average 17 times an hour. Given that frequency of falls, you...
A former editor of mine, while editing a policy-heavy story that needed more depth, lamented the demise of beat reporting....
Mighty, Mighty Bosses
Florida Executives Apply Peer Pressure to Advance Early Childhood
“We as a nation are taking parenting seriously for the first time,” economic researcher Martha Gimbel recently told The Washington...
When Early Learning Nation came across a study titled “Altruistic Food Sharing Behavior by Human Infants after a Hunger Manipulation,”...
Developed in the 1990s, Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) aim to increase the availability of high-quality early education programs,...
Tonja Rucker, program director for Early Childhood Success at the National League of Cities, discusses the universal message crossing partisan divides, all sectors and audiences, that to have vibrant, thriving cities, families must be strong. Watch to learn more.
What’s Missing in Early Childhood Education: A School District
The established model works for K-12, so why is it missing in ECE?
Neighborhood Villages began with a goal: do for child care what the state already does for K-12. Organize it, regulate...
After learning about the Tools of the Mind curriculum from cofounder Deborah Leong (read our interview), writer Mark Swartz met...
Lived Experience Sabra Bell remembers what it was like to be pregnant and low on funds. “Extra cash would have...
From BCDI-Greater Los Angeles comes an ageless African tradition: Mind your elders. After all, from lessons on wisdom to respect, they have important insights for parents and children alike.
I wrote last year about the strange schism between early child care and school-aged child care, and I don’t want to belabor the point other than to say parents of school-aged children represent a shockingly untapped care constituency. Instead, I want to talk about summer care, and summer camp specifically.
For years, adults have been encouraged to get sufficient exercise to support their brain health. As it turns out, cardiovascular...
