After learning about the Tools of the Mind curriculum from cofounder Deborah Leong (read our interview), writer Mark Swartz met...
The ice cream truck, that American institution, is brilliant in its simplicity. Rather than waiting for kids to show up...
Parents and Caregivers Are Vital to Children’s Early Learning and Development
A team at the University of Chicago's TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health is building resources to help them understand brain development.
Tune in, talk more, take turns is good advice for anyone hoping to build their conversational skills. It is also...
Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
This article, the first in a new series, will highlight efforts being led by local, state and national partners of the recently launched National Collaborative for Infants and Toddlers (NCIT) to advance promising prenatal-to-three policies and programs that create and expand family support systems.
Earlier this month, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof hailed “an enormous body of research showing that the greatest leverage...
A new report commissioned by the Early Educator Investment Collaborative—Mary Pauper: A Historical Exploration of Early Care and Education Compensation,...
As we logged onto this webinar, we were greeted by the sights and sounds of Frank Waln’s “My Stone.” All...
New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the nation’s oldest and largest teaching hospitals. They're upping their early childhoold development game with an online curriculum that demonstrates how pediatric residents can promote brain development and help strengthen parent-child relationships within the confines of routine well-child visits
More than 2 million children in the U.S. belong to families that don’t speak English or don’t understand it well;...
North Carolina Has Lost More Than 5% of Licensed Child Care Programs Since the Pandemic Began
Closures of licensed child care programs have been outpacing the opening of new programs since at least June 2023
This article originally appeared at EdNC.org. Since February 2020, the number of licensed child care programs in North Carolina has...
Children’s Advocate Peggy Flanagan Poised to Become First Native Woman Governor
Minnesota's lieutenant gov promoted free school lunch & Indigenous curriculum, served on Minneapolis's school board and was Walz's political mentor.
The first night of the Democratic National Convention, vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s lieutenant governor strode onto the stage to...
