Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
In her excellent book, Who’s Raising the Kids: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children, Dr. Susan Linn brings this insidious behemoth to the foreground and underscores it with bright red lines.
Deborah VanderGaast originally started running a child care business out of her home in Tipton, Iowa in 2005 serving children...
This November, New Mexicans sent a resounding message to their state officials: fund early childhood education. With 70% voter approval,...
It is time to put a certain unhelpful myth to rest. For decades, a common belief has held that speaking...
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...
Getting a child outdoors to embrace literacy, art and the great outdoors is simple: All you need is a cordless...
While the U.S. is busy debating whether or not to finally invest in our failing child care system, Canada is busy doing it.
There’s a truism among child-mindful urban planners: Children are an indicator species for cities. “Just as the presence of salmon...
The ice cream truck, that American institution, is brilliant in its simplicity. Rather than waiting for kids to show up...
Unstructured Play and Self-Regulation Study Shows Children Need Time and Space to Make Their Own Fun
Common wisdom dictates that young children thrive on structure; as a result, caregivers may feel pressured to fill up children’s...
Khulood Jamil never shut the doors of her home child care in California’s Bay Area in the early days of...