Julie Leff can pinpoint the moment when she knew Roger Brooks was the right person to lead Facing History and...
According to Roberta Michnick Golinkoff & Kathy Hirsh-Pasek – researchers and co-authors of “Becoming Brilliant, What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children” – language is the single best predictor of how young children will do in school. That’s why they’ve created an innovative, easy way for practitioners to measure students’ verbal progress. 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
Lived Experience Sabra Bell remembers what it was like to be pregnant and low on funds. “Extra cash would have...
Some experts say that when it comes specifically to teaching consent, sex education for young children can be done without being explicit, and it can help kids learn about boundaries and empathy when it comes to their own bodies and the bodies of other people.
According to NYU University Professor Lawrence Aber, poverty and violence are the two most toxic challenges for child development – areas he has researched from the U.S. to Africa and the Middle East. Regardless of location, children can experience poverty and violence in difference ways and levels. Aber explains the research, tools and tactics required to give children the best opportunities for successful development. 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
Daniel Mendoza makes his own paintbrushes. It may have started out as a way to save money, but it also...
Summer’s here, and the time is right for… helping our kids hold onto what they learned during this extraordinary year....
Bank Street Makes the Case for Compensation
Puts Pay at the Center of the Child Care Dialogue
It isn’t the 1950s anymore. The reality before and, presumably, after the pandemic, is that parents are outside of home...
Not everyone who comes to America is pursuing the American Dream. Some are in flight from life-threatening crises. Layered on...
7 Reasons to Be Encouraged about the Planet Our Children Are Inheriting
Finding Hope in the U.S. Early Years Climate Action Plan
While climate change is all around us, and the projections are uniformly grim, there have never been so many local,...
Tennessee on Track to Become First in Nation to Offer Diaper Benefit to Medicaid Families
Good, Say Medicaid Expansion Advocates, But More Work Is Needed
Some of Tennessee’s most vulnerable families could soon get relief from the high cost of diapers, as the state works...
Summer travel is a whole other thing when you’re a parent of young children. The rest and relaxation you’ve been...
