Imagine you are building a car. You invest in a solid chassis, make sure the wheels are inflated, oil the...
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.
Early on in the recently released documentary Through The Night, Deloris “Nunu” Hogan circles up the group of children under...
This is why we can’t have nice things. Finally, at long last, bipartisan momentum is building towards an affordable, accessible,...
Opinion: The Era of Child Care Incrementalism is Over
Child Care is Now a Top-Tier Bipartisan Issue
It can be difficult to realize you’ve reached a tipping point until you’re on the other side, like crossing a...
The SouthSide Early Childhood Center in St. Louis is the oldest child care program west of the Mississippi, founded all...
An Electoral “Children’s Wave”
Q&A with Children's Funding Project Founder Elizabeth Gaines
On November 3rd, seven early childhood ballot initiatives went before voters in cities and counties around the nation. All seven...
In this two-part series, Elliot Haspel explores how one Oregon region mobilized to generate an innovative, next-generation plan for universal...
In this two-part series, Elliot Haspel explores how one Oregon region mobilized to generate an innovative, next-generation plan for universal...
One of the most frustrating aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic is the need to act with incomplete information, like driving...
The question that parents and practitioners really want to know is this: How safe are child cares? Or, put another way, how likely is my child (or am I) to catch COVID-19 from a child care center? In order to know that, we need to be able to answer how much transmission is occurring WITHIN child care centers? Until we ask the right questions and demand the right data, we’ll be stumbling in the dark.
COVID-19 is a bizarre disease that defies easy answers. It impacts the lungs – except when it doesn’t. It brutalizes...
Anyone who has been following the intersection of COVID-19 and child care knows that the U.S. is not doing well....