The Founding Fathers built competition among the states into our system of government. With 50-plus laboratories for democracy, we’re bound... Read More
As educators and policy makers look at high-performing preschools to find models for improving quality across the board, one area... Read More
Executive function – the skills to focus and manage tasks – is, of course, central to childhood development. Given that, measuring executive function becomes imperative. How does that work? University of Minnesota professors Stephanie M. Carlson & Philip David Zelazo explain their research and the powerful tool they’ve created. Filmed for Early Learning Nation’s Mobile Studio at the Society for Research in Child Development’s biennial meeting in Baltimore, MD, on March 22, 2019. #SRCD19 Read More
Hiding in the basement from my wife and kids, I tuned into a recent webinar on screen time, part of... Read More
Turnaround for Children’s Building Blocks for Learning is a framework for the development of skills children need for success in... Read More
Throughout most of human history and in most of the world, that paradigm of children playing outdoors as a part of childhood has been so integral as to be transparent. Not so in the U.S., where, according to the Child Mind Institute, the average American child spends four to seven minutes a day in unstructured play outdoors and more than seven hours a day in front of a screen. Washington State is changing that. Read More
Researchers presenting at the recent 2019 Zero to Three conference detailed a program that studies have found effective in treating... Read More
Despite working in captivity for most of 2020, we continued to speak with top Early Learning researchers, educators, nonprofit and... Read More
Summer’s here, and the time is right for… helping our kids hold onto what they learned during this extraordinary year.... Read More
A Golden Opportunity for Early Childhood Apprenticeships
Why the Bank Street College of Education Believes the Time Is Right
Apprenticeships are practically as old as civilization, a concept normally associated with trades like blacksmithing and tailoring rather than child... Read More
