K.C. Compton, Author at Early Learning Nation

First-Ever Study Provides High-Tech Window on Mother-Child Brain Synchrony

I-LABS Collaborates with Japanese and Taiwanese Brain Scientists

K.C. Compton·November 29, 2022·5 min read

We’ve all had the experience of feeling “in synch” with another person, and mothers frequently describe feeling a “psychic connection”...

Neighborhood Villages: Boston-Based Child Care Innovation Lab for Solutions that Can Scale

K.C. Compton·November 10, 2022·9 min read

The child care landscape throughout the U.S. can put just about anyone in a grim frame of mind. The problems...

Book Review: Wanting What’s Best: Parenting, Privilege and Building a Just World

K.C. Compton·November 8, 2022·5 min read

Jaffe doesn’t blame parents of privilege—a category to which she belongs—for the terrible circumstances of other children’s lives, but she does make clear that we all have a responsibility and a role in creating and perpetuating that disparity.

Keywords and Coffee Fuel In-Depth Studies of Environmental Education in Early Childhood

K.C. Compton·November 3, 2022·5 min read

One thought comes immediately to mind when looking at Stanford University researchers’ systematic review of 66 studies on the value...

Book Review: The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

K.C. Compton·October 5, 2022·5 min read

In The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, Paul effectively makes the case that most of the metaphors we have for cognition are not useful because they allude to Western society’s assumption that thinking only happens inside the brain: the ubiquitous admonition to “use your head.”

New Resource Offers Roadmap for Informing, Evaluating Farm to Early Care and Education Programs

K.C. Compton·September 28, 2022·8 min read

As childcare centers, preschools and other early education settings strive to stretch every penny, they often face daunting challenges in...

Book Review: Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

K.C. Compton·September 8, 2022·6 min read

Essential Labor is both a memoir and a call to action. The caregiving crisis the US finds itself in now will outlast the pandemic and we must figure out ways to care for each other.

Book Review: Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit

K.C. Compton·August 18, 2022·6 min read

Along with this history of metastatic industrial development, staggering pollution, relentless corruption and breathtakingly bad policy, Rector presents the other side of the coin: the fierce, courageous, dogged commitment of activists pushing back decade after decade, demanding cleaner air, better working conditions and water that wouldn’t poison their children.

Recent Study Suggests Head Start Programs Provide Effective Intervention in Addressing Childhood Obesity

K.C. Compton·August 3, 2022·6 min read

As parents, educators and policymakers wrestle with the reality that a large and growing percentage of U.S. children are obese...

Breaking Poverty’s Grip: New Head Start Study of Second-Generation Statistics Show It Can Be Done

K.C. Compton·July 12, 2022·6 min read

“Five- and six-year-old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators.” –President Lyndon B. Johnson, May 1965 In...

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