Mark Swartz, Author at Early Learning Nation

Unfiltered Portraits of Underpaid Mothers

Mark Swartz·Apr 25, 2023·4 min read

Getting Me Cheap presents the stories and struggles of working women and mothers relegated to jobs on the labor market's lowest rungs.

Mark Swartz·Apr 21, 2023·5 min read

Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...

Mark Swartz·Apr 18, 2023·6 min read

Leah Austin, Ed.D., president & CEO of the National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) spoke with Early Learning Nation magazine...

Mark Swartz·Apr 6, 2023·5 min read

This is the way Liz Ogbu describes herself as a child: “I was the weird one in my family who drew.” But she didn’t become an artist.

Applications Due April 21 for Educator Impact Grants

Mark Swartz·Mar 30, 2023·4 min read

Erikson Institute’s new Master of Science in Early Childhood Education (MSECE) licensure program is designed to prepare teachers to teach...

Part II of a two-part interview with David Jacobson

Mark Swartz·Mar 16, 2023·4 min read

The First 10 initiative of the Education Development Center (EDC) supports a network that will soon include more than 60...

Part I of a two-part interview with David Jacobson

Mark Swartz·Mar 16, 2023·5 min read

The First 10 initiative of the Education Development Center (EDC) supports a network that will soon include more than 60...

Mark Swartz·Mar 15, 2023·6 min read

Early education advocates cheered when President Biden’s State of the Union address noted that children who attend preschool are nearly...

Four Early Childhood Leaders Describe Their Journeys

Mark Swartz·Mar 9, 2023·5 min read

The Bank Street College of Education’s new Early Childhood Policy Fellowship got started this past September. The year-long, remote, no-cost...