K.C. Compton, Author at Early Learning Nation

America’s Child Care Food Programs: Available and Too-Often Unused

K.C. Compton·November 9, 2023·8 min read

The federal Child and Adult Care Food Program works. One of 15 US Department of Agriculture programs aimed at reducing...

Poverty Tracker Documents the Difference New York’s Universal 3-K Program Makes for Mothers in the Work Force

K.C. Compton·October 10, 2023·6 min read

When the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project reported earlier this year that women in the workforce have made the greatest contribution...

Book Review: Child Care Justice: Transforming the System of Care for Young Children

K.C. Compton·August 18, 2023·6 min read

A book intended as a catalyst for change, a call to action and marching papers for a national grassroots movement of those committed to addressing the racial, gender and economic injustices endemic to the ECE field.

New Paper: Aligning Early Years and Climate Change Strategies Can Drive Action on Both Fronts

K.C. Compton·July 27, 2023·6 min read

The idea of climate change can seem so huge and impenetrable the temptation might be to panic, distract ourselves or...

UnidosUS: Arming Fathers with Facts to Support Their Children’s School Success

K.C. Compton·July 19, 2023·7 min read

Though family and faith are at the core of traditional Latino culture, and strong support for education is a powerful...

New Study: We Can Change Minds—and Mindsets—About the Value of Early Childhood

K.C. Compton·June 22, 2023·7 min read

Considering how often we say we care about children in the U.S., one might assume we’d be able to point...

New Study: Hot Days Impact Kids’ Activity Levels and Health

Preschoolers’ Health in the Face of Rising Outdoor Heat

K.C. Compton·June 15, 2023·6 min read

Given the impact of high outdoor temperatures on the health of small children, we might want to start thinking of...

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...

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.

Generation Hope: One Desperate Teen’s Story Grows into Hope for Hundreds

Collecting Data, Providing Services, Transforming Lives of Student Parents

K.C. Compton·May 11, 2023·7 min read

Two little pink lines. Sometimes that’s all it takes to derail a person’s life and torpedo any plans they might...

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