Oregon is aiming to improve child care across the state—expanding access, boosting quality and building more sustainability into the system....
Early Learning Nation columnist Mark Swartz writes for and about nonprofit organizations. Author of the children's books Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, Lost Flamingo, Magpie Bridge and The Giant of the Flood as well as a few novels, he lives in Takoma Park, MD, with his wife and two children.
The laws of supply and demand have never quite applied to child care, and no state exemplifies this conundrum as...
Every time Emmy Thibodeaux drops off or picks up her two-year-old son at child care, there’s a situation being managed,...
Nearly 24 million U.S. children live in single-parent families, and they are far more likely to experience food and housing insecurity, and other hazards of poverty.
Hope, wrote Emily Dickinson, is the thing with feathers. To which we would add glitter, glue, googly eyes and the...
5 Top Takeaways: Hunt Institute and Alliance for Early Success Explore Big Wins for Little Kids 2022
2022 produced an impressive number of big wins, which the Hunt Institute and Alliance for Early Success explored December 5 in this year’s edition of the Big Wins for Little Kids webinar.
The quest for reliable funding of children’s programs often runs through local government, and First Steps Kent of Kent County,...
First Book, a nonprofit social enterprise focused on furthering educational equity for children ages 0-18 who are growing up in...
Neurons and Neighborhoods in the Nation’s Capital
How a D.C. Women’s Shelter Is Becoming a Leader in Multigenerational Therapy
Early in the pandemic, Dr. Alicia Lieberman, director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San...
What are you most thankful for in the early learning world? We put the question to Early Learning Nation’s community...
The new Stanford Center on Early Childhood (an initiative of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning) held a launch event November 3. Here are our Top Takeaways.
For Children and the Climate, the Future Is Now
Diving into the Data with the Early Years Climate Action Task Force
Human brains aren’t so good at planning ahead. Because we have a weird tendency to view our future selves as...
