“This is a moment for difficult conversations,” says Dr. Robert Blaine, who recently became senior executive of the Institute for...
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.
Listening to Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek talk about education can feel like the first time you visit one of those frozen yogurt places where you add your own toppings. You start with a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but it’s all so good, you don’t know quite where to stop.
Businesses merge all the time. Nonprofit mergers rarely occur, but experts have long pointed to the potential advantages of joining...
On Thursday, April 29, The Hunt Institute hosted a conversation with researchers and school leaders in Virginia. Data on new school readiness points to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the preparedness of young students.
When The New York Times declared, “America’s Mothers Are in Crisis” in February, it was hardly news to America’s mothers....
In the past few decades, public libraries have undergone a quiet transformation from sleepy repositories of books to full-fledged community...
The fellows program of the Zaentz Early Education Initiative at Harvard University cultivates new leaders in this vital and rapidly...
In a 2016 Atlantic feature, Alana Semuels calls Fairfield County, Conn., the epicenter of American inequality. “Bridgeport,” she writes, “an...
Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...
On March 16, the National League of Cities (NLC) hosted a virtual fireside chat titled “State and Local Government Prenatal-to-Three Collaboration in Action.” The conversation focused on political leaders in Wisconsin, but the lessons were applicable beyond America’s Dairyland.
The American Rescue Plan signed by President Joe Biden on March 12 contains a number of potentially game-changing policies for...
“Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone’s disbelief,” said August Wilson, playwright of the great “Pittsburgh Cycle.”...
