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Book Review: New Book on Preschool Segregation Raises Under-Examined Questions

False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers

Elliot Haspel·November 14, 2023·9 min read

This week brings the release of an important new book on early care and education. False Starts: The Segregated Lives...

Back and Forth: Talking with Author Rebecca Rolland about Talking with Children

Mark Swartz·October 26, 2023·5 min read

Rebecca Rolland’s The Art of Talking with Children: The Simple Keys to Nurturing Kindness, Creativity, and Confidence in Kids explores...

“Empathy in All Its Aspects”

First Book's Paula Willey on Age-Appropriate Books to Build Kindness and Compassion

Mark Swartz and Paula Willey·October 25, 2023·9 min read

Paula Willey is a librarian’s librarian. Co-author of The Passive Programming Playbook: 101 Ways to Get Library Customers off the...

Why Invest in Public Campaigns to Promote Marriage When What’s Needed Are Effective Policies?

New Two Parent Privilege Book Strikes a Nerve

Haley Swenson·October 12, 2023·7 min read

Prior to becoming a mother, Emily Ford worked as a personal fitness trainer in the Salt Lake City, Utah area....

Book Review: Why and How to Abolish the Child Welfare System

Mark Swartz·September 14, 2023·4 min read

The history of racism in the United States and its ongoing impacts on children and families experiencing state-sponsored displacement are on full display in this collection edited by Dettlaff.

Book Review: Child Care Justice: Transforming the System of Care for Young Children

K.C. Compton·August 18, 2023·6 min read

A book intended as a catalyst for change, a call to action and marching papers for a national grassroots movement of those committed to addressing the racial, gender and economic injustices endemic to the ECE field.

Kelly Fradin’s Parenting Prescription. Interview with the Author

Mark Swartz·June 20, 2023·4 min read

“Every family has multiple balls in the air,” Kelly Fradin writes in Advanced Parenting. “Some are bouncy balls and if you drop them the show will go on. But others are glass and require more attention to keep intact.”

Book Review: Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth

K.C. Compton·May 30, 2023·5 min read

In flipping the script, Banks writes that birth is immense, that birth has existential, moral and theological significance at least as great as death.

Book Review: Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty

Unfiltered Portraits of Underpaid Mothers

Mark Swartz·April 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.

Book Review: No Longer Welcome: The Epidemic of Expulsion from Early Childhood Education

K.C. Compton·March 8, 2023·6 min read

Children 2, 3 and 4 years old—especially boys and Black children—are being kicked out of their schools at “staggering rates,” she writes—more than three times that of K–12 school children.