Despite working in captivity for most of 2020, we continued to speak with top Early Learning researchers, educators, nonprofit and...
When three in 10 candidates who sign up for your program don’t make it to the end, you know you...
Jackie Counts, director of Kansas University’s Center for Public Partnerships and Research (CPPR), likens the early childhood continuum to the...
Daniel Mendoza makes his own paintbrushes. It may have started out as a way to save money, but it also...
Getting a child outdoors to embrace literacy, art and the great outdoors is simple: All you need is a cordless...
The Founding Fathers built competition among the states into our system of government. With 50-plus laboratories for democracy, we’re bound...
In this two-part series, Elliot Haspel explores how one Oregon region mobilized to generate an innovative, next-generation plan for universal...
The best time to get a child’s life off to a solid start begins months before their birth. That’s why...
Language evolves. What was once a just-right phrase that fit a situation like a glove can, in time, become constraining...
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
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
Mya-Rose Craig, 17-years old, has followed her passion for birds and the environment to create and galvanize a community of activists of all ages. In the process, as a young Muslim woman, she’s been trolled on social media. Not an insurmountable problem, though, as Mya-Rose is keeping her eye on a larger issue: saving the planet.













