K.C. Compton, Author at Early Learning Nation

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...

Reading Their Way to Better Parenting: Baby Book Projects Show It Can Be Done

K.C. Compton·July 7, 2022·7 min read

An unfortunate fact about the health care and child development information physicians try to cover during well-child checkups is that...

Learning to Read Online: It’s Possible, Doable and Could Involve Chicken Hats

K.C. Compton·June 21, 2022·6 min read

For adults who’ve spent much of the past two years watching PowerPoint presentations while attending Zoom meetings, the idea of...

Connoisseurs of Silly: Babies Start Laughing Early—And They Think Your Material Is Great

K.C. Compton·June 2, 2022·7 min read

When an international team of researchers surveyed humor development in children from 1 to 47 months, they asked parents to...

Where Have All the Fathers Gone in Child Language Research? Dearth of Dads Must Change

K.C. Compton·April 19, 2022·7 min read

In reviewing the extensive body of research on children’s language development, you might find yourself looking around for some fathers....

Babies Are Surprisingly Altruistic—When They Know You Need Help

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

Anyone who has spent time around a toddler knows their signature cries of “No!” and “Mi-i-ine!”—often some of the first...

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