Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...

Elliot Haspel
Elliot Haspel is a nationally-recognized child & family policy expert and commentator, with a specialty in early childhood and education issues. He is the author of Crawling Behind: America’s Childcare Crisis and How to Fix It, and a Senior Fellow at the think tank Capita. Elliot has appeared on television as an analyst, including on The PBS Newshour with Judy Woodruff, and his writings have appeared in a wide variety of top publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. Elliot holds an B.A. in History from the University of Virginia and an M.Ed. in Education Policy from Harvard's Graduate School of Education.
Elliot also writes a free semi-monthly newsletter, The Parents Aren't Alright.
Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
Happy New Year! As 2023 kicks off, I wanted to highlight five early learning trends to be watching this year.
As a man, a husband and a father, it turns out reading a book about motherhood could hardly be more valuable.
For my last column of the year, I want to touch on a less-discussed but not-unimportant question: what in the heck should we call the care and education of children during the first five years of their life?
Early Learning Nation columnist Elliot Haspel recently joined Capita as a Senior Fellow working on establishing a new philanthropic fund...
As I travel internationally, I have been thinking a lot about how we position child care in the United States. I am increasingly concerned by an ascendant school of thought that emphasizes a role for employer-sponsored child care benefits.
Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
While there is much to celebrate about the Inflation Reduction Act, one group was left on the outside looking in: parents with young children.
While we see the tyranny of merit most active in K-12 and higher education, school readiness is the Trojan horse through which it has breached the world of early childhood.