Sharing the Findings from Better Life Lab: Improving Child Care Assistance and Investment Part 4 of a 5-Part Series Rebecca Gale·Aug 23, 2022·10 min readOur country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is for... Read More
How Two Zaentz Fellows Are Adapting to—and Shaping—the Early Education LandscapeMark Swartz·Apr 22, 2021·3 min readThe fellows program of the Zaentz Early Education Initiative at Harvard University cultivates new leaders in this vital and rapidly... Read More
Kyle Zimmer Builds Community of Educators on Frontlines of Economic and Educational JusticeMark Swartz·Oct 29, 2019·9 min readIn the late 1980s, as Washington, D.C., endured the crack era, Kyle Zimmer felt compelled to do something to help... Read More
Reading Their Way to Better Parenting: Baby Book Projects Show It Can Be DoneK.C. Compton·Jul 7, 2022·7 min readAn unfortunate fact about the health care and child development information physicians try to cover during well-child checkups is that... Read More
Digital Inclusion: A Resource Guide for the Early Learning CommunityMark Swartz·Jun 8, 2020·2 min readA new report from New America, Pandemic Planning for Distance Learning, laments the failure of school districts across the country... Read More
Opinion: Child Cares Look Safe — It’s Time To Act Like ItElliot Haspel·Jun 10, 2020·7 min readCOVID-19 is a bizarre disease that defies easy answers. It impacts the lungs – except when it doesn’t. It brutalizes... Read More
Slowing the #SummerSlideMark Swartz and Art Hondros (Illustrator)·Jun 23, 2020·6 min readSummer’s here, and the time is right for… helping our kids hold onto what they learned during this extraordinary year.... Read More
Signs of Progress: What Families of Deaf Children Should KnowMark Swartz·Dec 5, 2019·3 min readI see people signing all the time because I live in the Washington, D.C., area near the Red Line, which... Read More
Before Coronavirus, the U.S. Child Care Landscape Was Already in Crisis Our Broken Child Care System and How to Fix It, Part 1 Laura Justice and Mark Swartz·May 5, 2020·6 min readIn this three-part series, Dr. Laura Justice—executive director of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy at The... Read More
Neurons and Neighborhoods in the Nation’s Capital How a D.C. Women’s Shelter Is Becoming a Leader in Multigenerational Therapy Mark Swartz·Dec 7, 2022·4 min readEarly in the pandemic, Dr. Alicia Lieberman, director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San... Read More
The Raising Child Care Fund: Centering the Most Impacted VoicesElliot Haspel·Oct 13, 2021·10 min readAs the fight for an effective and well-funded child care system continues, philanthropies are exploring innovative avenues to support advocacy... Read More
5 Top Takeaways: Hunt Institute and Alliance for Early Success Explore Big Wins for Little Kids 2022Mark Swartz·Dec 22, 2022·4 min read2022 produced an impressive number of big wins, which the Hunt Institute and Alliance for Early Success explored December 5 in this year’s edition of the Big Wins for Little Kids webinar. Read More