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Elliot’s Provocations: Bring on School-Aged Care

Can We Create a Seamless Melding of Early Child Care and School-Aged Care?

Elliot Haspel·June 5, 2023·5 min read

Linking early child care and school-aged care is a good idea both on the merits and the politics. I’m hardly the first one to point this out, but I want to highlight the opportunity here as we head into summer break and the acute headache it causes for many families.

Tennessee on Track to Become First in Nation to Offer Diaper Benefit to Medicaid Families

Good, Say Medicaid Expansion Advocates, But More Work Is Needed

K.C. Compton·June 1, 2023·4 min read

Some of Tennessee’s most vulnerable families could soon get relief from the high cost of diapers, as the state works to become first in the...

Book Review: Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth

K.C. Compton·May 30, 2023·5 min read

In flipping the script, Banks writes that birth is immense, that birth has existential, moral and theological significance at least as great as death.

OPINION: Want a High-Quality Education for Your Kids? Then Protect Equity in the Classroom.

Pamela Thompson and Daisy Han·May 24, 2023·3 min read

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey recently made headlines for forcing out the Secretary of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education over a resource book often used to support educators’...

All Our Kin: Fortifying Family Child Care—and Families—with 130 Organizations and Agencies in 23 States and Washington, D.C.

Mark Swartz·May 23, 2023·4 min read

All Our Kin is an innovative national nonprofit leading the effort to transform the U.S. child care system. Launched 24 years ago in New Haven,...

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Elliot’s Provocations: Bring on School-Aged Care

By Elliot Haspel
June 5, 2023

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Tennessee on Track to Become First in Nation to Offer Diaper Benefit to Medicaid Families

By K.C. Compton
June 1, 2023

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Book Review: Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth

By K.C. Compton
May 30, 2023

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OPINION: Want a High-Quality Education for Your Kids? Then Protect Equity in the Classroom.

By Pamela Thompson and Daisy Han
May 24, 2023

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All Our Kin: Fortifying Family Child Care—and Families—with 130 Organizations and Agencies in 23 States and Washington, D.C.

By Mark Swartz
May 23, 2023

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Elliot Haspel·May 2, 2023·5 min read

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