More than 2 million children in the U.S. belong to families that don’t speak English or don’t understand it well;...
K.C. Compton worked as a reporter, editor and columnist for newspapers throughout the Rocky Mountain region for 20 years before moving to the Kansas City area as an editor for Mother Earth News. She has been in Seattle since 2016, enjoying life as a freelance and contract writer and editor.
Valley Settlement: Deep-Listening Tour Becomes Targeted Programming for Colorado Community
El Busesitos Bring Free, Mobile Preschool to Five Neighborhoods
When children hop aboard one of Valley Settlement’s El Busesito mobile preschools in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, they’re taking a...
Mount Sinai Pilot Project: Creating a Culture Shift in Pediatric Health Care
Case Study Available for Download
Over a few nights in 2019, a radical change took place at New York’s renowned Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital....
First-Ever Study Provides High-Tech Window on Mother-Child Brain Synchrony
I-LABS Collaborates with Japanese and Taiwanese Brain Scientists
We’ve all had the experience of feeling “in synch” with another person, and mothers frequently describe feeling a “psychic connection”...
The child care landscape throughout the U.S. can put just about anyone in a grim frame of mind. The problems...
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.
One thought comes immediately to mind when looking at Stanford University researchers’ systematic review of 66 studies on the value...
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.”
As childcare centers, preschools and other early education settings strive to stretch every penny, they often face daunting challenges in...
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.