Considering how often we say we care about children in the U.S., one might assume we’d be able to point...
Child Care Innovation: Centralizing Administrative Roles
Part 3 of a 5-part Series
Our country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is for...
Jaffe doesn’t blame parents of privilege—a category to which she belongs—for the terrible circumstances of other children’s lives, but she does make clear that we all have a responsibility and a role in creating and perpetuating that disparity.
There’s an African proverb that’s now universally popular, and it says, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Governor Pritzker and I realize that the child care industry is part of the essential foundation that helps our children develop intellectually and emotionally. The industry allows working parents to focus on being productive on their jobs.
Early education advocates cheered when President Biden’s State of the Union address noted that children who attend preschool are nearly...
Colorado Pilot Gives Home Child Care Providers Cash Payments with No Strings Attached
More Providers Stay Open and Manage Income Fluctuations
Angelica Lerrga started caring for children in the basement of her sister’s Colorado home in 2009, after her husband had...
Play Is a Child’s Search for Meaning: Q&A with Brenda Fyfe
Part 8 in “Seasons of Play” Series
To learn more about play’s place in the Reggio Emilia approach, Early Learning Nation magazine spoke to Brenda Fyfe, dean and professor emeritus of the School of Education at Webster University.
In the midst of my search for a new child care provider for my one-year-old, I’ve braced myself for the...
I still have flashbacks to the time my elder child’s kindergarten teacher left me alone with the class. Opening Cloudy...
3 Top Takeaways from Learning from This Moment
A Conversation with Early Childhood Philanthropic Leaders
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
Early on in the recently released documentary Through The Night, Deloris “Nunu” Hogan circles up the group of children under...
Dana L. Suskind, surgeon and “self-trained social scientist,” balances an incredible amount of empathy and urgency in her second book, Parent Nation.
