Early education advocates cheered when President Biden’s State of the Union address noted that children who attend preschool are nearly...
Mark Swartz writes for Early Learning Nation and the Stanford Center on Early Childhood about efforts to improve early care and education. He lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, with his wife and two children.
Bank Street’s New Policy Fellowship Aims for Equity and Quality
Four Early Childhood Leaders Describe Their Journeys
The Bank Street College of Education’s new Early Childhood Policy Fellowship got started this past September. The year-long, remote, no-cost...
Southern Living magazine calls it the South’s Best College Town, but Athens-Clark County also has its challenges, including a 30%...
What do you do when a preschooler throws a desk? For Carol Barton, project director of Early Childhood Education in...
On February 7, the Hunt Institute hosted a conversation on the health outcomes of mothers and infants of color, as compared to their white counterparts.
Investing in New Systems for Paying Educators What They Need and Deserve
New Grant Opportunity Deadline May 1, 2023
For U.S. children to realize their potential, the professionals who care and educate them need the training, respect and compensation...
FUEL for Asylum Seekers and Their Children
Robin Hood Supports ASAP in Navigating the Complicated Process
Fleeing from death threats and domestic abuse in Honduras, Diana braved the journey to the United States with her three...
It looks like just another ordinary day at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM). A dozen mothers and about 30...
A decade ago, early childhood advocacy could be a lonely pursuit. “It felt like we were talking to an empty auditorium,” says Bruce D. Perry, MD, Ph.D. “Now there are more people in the auditorium. They’re recognizing the power of early childhood, the importance of creating policy and practice that will benefit children and that will meet the needs of the adults who are caring for young children.”
Frederica Perera, founder of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, didn’t write Children’s Health and the Perils of Climate...
Every year, air pollution-related causes kill more than half a million children before their fifth birthdays, and an even greater number are afflicted by lasting damage to their developing brains and lungs.
Bilingualism means more than the ability to speak two languages. Robert Stechuk, UnidosUS’s director of early childhood education programs, maintains...
